aemulus

aemulus adj.

2 IC-, AIC-, striving earnestly after, emulating, rivalling, vying with, emulous : laudis: studiorum: itinerum Herculis, L.— Envious, jealous, grudging, malicious : Triton, V.— As subst, a rival : alqm tamquam aemulum removere. — Of things, rivalling, comparable, similar : tibia tubae, H.: Carthago inperi Romani, S.