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  • _Tr_ V iv 47 'plena tot ac tantis referetur gratia factis', _EP_ I vii 61 'emeritis referenda est gratia semper', and _EP_ III i 79-80 'nec ... debetur meritis gratia nulla meis'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Interim, quae bello opus erant, prima habere; postulare legionibus supplementum, auxilia a populis et regibus sociisque arcessere, praeterea ex Latio fortissimum quemque, plerosque militiae, paucos fama cognitos accire, et ambiundo cogere [440] homines emeritis stipendiis secum proficisci.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Discharged veterans -- _Homines emeritis stipendiis.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • But loving mankind in my individual relations with them, I pray to be permitted to depart in their peace; and like the superannuated soldier, "quadragenis stipendiis emeritis," to hang my arms on the post.

    Letters 1760

  • Planning's really about culture and people, that never stops developing and changing, so there's always something to learn, even if you're global, executive, emeritis god of planning for the universe.

    Northern Planner 2009

  • To quote Larry Cuban professor emeritis at Stanford U

    Matthew Yglesias » What Is the Education Reform Debate About? 2010

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