Meaning of emeritus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. earned, (having been) merited
   declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect
2. served, having done one's service
   declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect

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Examples

“At illa quantī sunt, animum, tamquam ēmeritīs stīpendiīs libīdinis, ambitiōnis, contentiōnis, inimīcitiārum cupiditātum omnium, sēcum esse sēcumque, ut dīcitur, vīvere! But how precious are those [circumstances]: that the soul, as if having completed its campaigns of lust, ambition, strife, enmities, and every kind of desire, [is finally able] to be with itself and with itself, as the saying goes, to live! (Old age replaces youthful passion with self-possession. Stīpendium, or soldier’s pay, had evolved to mean a “year of service,” while ēmeritīs indicated duty “fully served.” Cicero thereby used the military metaphor ēmeritīs stīpendiīs to frame the soul as a veteran honorably discharged from the service of its own appetites.)”

“dēmpserat ēmeritīs iam iuga Phoebus equīs”

Phoebus had already removed the yokes from his horses, [they] having done their service. (Phoebus Apollo has driven his golden chariot across the sky and put away the horses; in other words, the time is after sunset.)

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