All 6 Uses of
emulate
in
The Aeneid
- From gilded roofs depending lamps display Nocturnal beams, that emulate the day.†
Book 1
- An emulating zeal inspires his train: They run; they snatch; they rush into the main.†
Book 4
- Salmoneus, suff'ring cruel pains, I found, For emulating Jove; the rattling sound Of mimic thunder, and the glitt'ring blaze Of pointed lightnings, and their forky rays.†
Book 6
- emulate a god
Book 8 *emulate = imitating
- Be mindful of the race from whence you came, And emulate in arms your fathers' fame.†
Book 10
- This son of Dolon bore his grandsire's name, But emulated more his father's fame; His guileful father, sent a nightly spy, The Grecian camp and order to descry: Hard enterprise! and well he might require Achilles' car and horses, for his hire: But, met upon the scout, th' Aetolian prince In death bestow'd a juster recompense.†
Book 12
Definition:
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(emulate) imitate (copy)