[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Mereo</orth>, meres, merui & méritus sum: & mereor, merêris. meréri, Deponens. <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <p> <sense><trans lang="en">To deserue: to merit: to get: Also to take wages: to serne for wages: to do a pleasureor good turne.</trans> <I>Scio hanc metitam esse, vt memor esses sui.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">I know this woman hath deserued that. &c.</trans> <I>Quid merearisigitur, vt te dicas in eo magistratu omnia reluptatis causa facturum esse? Cicero.</I> <trans lang="en">What gayne or</trans> <PB> <trans lang="en">aduantage wouldest thou haue, to say and confesse, that in that office<12> &c.</trans> <I>Quid enim mereas, vt Epicureus esse desinas? <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl></I> <trans lang="en">What gaine would allure thee to ccase to be of the Epitures sect.</trans> <I>Quid merear quamobrem mentiar? <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl></I> <trans lang="en">What gaine or aduantage should I haue to lie.</trans> <I>Neque hodie vt re perdam, meream deûm diuitias mihi.</I> Plautus. <trans lang="en">I would not cast thee away, to be as rich as God himselfe is.</trans> <I>Aera merêre.</I> Horat. <trans lang="en">To gaine money.</trans> <I>Amorem mereri.</I> Horat. <I>Coronam primam laude merui.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To deserue the chiefe price.</trans> Decus meruere non minimum. Horat. <I>Nouissima exempla mêritus.</I> Tac. <trans lang="en">That bath deserned to be put to death to the example of all other.</trans> <I>Mereri exitium.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <I>Meruit famam apud Græcos Alcibiades.</I> Plin. <I>Fauorem mereri.</I> Quint. Mereri laudem. Cæf. <I>Merituslauream linguæ.</I> <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">That hath deserued the pryce of eloquence.</trans> Plin. Magna mcrens <bibl><author>Stat.</author></bibl> <I>Necem meruisse.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> Odium mereri. Quint. <I>Offensam mereri.</I> Quint. <trans lang="en">To get displeasure.</trans> <I>Pœnas meritas dare.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To be worthily punished.</trans> <I>Præmia merere.</I> Cæsar. <I>Stipendia in eo bello meruit.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">He was a souloiout in wages in that warre.</trans> <I>Supplicium meruisse.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> Veniam meruére. Lucan. <I>Meruit illa virum dote.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">She hath got an hushand by hit dowrie.</trans> <I> De te, neque re, neque verbis merui vt faceres quod facis.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">I haue neyther in worde nor deede deserued at your bande that you should do as you haue done.</trans> <I>Quid de te merui qua me causa perderes.</I> Pla. <trans lang="en">What haue I deserned at your haud why you should cast me away?</trans> <I>Quid de tantum meruisti? Ter.</I> <trans lang="en">What thing is it that thou bast doke so grieuously against thy selfer wherein hast thou so greatly displeased thy selfe?</trans> <I>Meritus de me est, quod queam, illi vt cõmodÊ.</I> Ter. <trans lang="en">He hath deserued at my hand to do him any pleasure that I can.</trans> <I>Bene mereri de aliquo.</I> <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To do one a pleasure or good turne.</trans> <I>Malè mereri de aliquo.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To doe one a displeasure: to deserue no fauout at ones hand.</trans> <I>Homo malè de se meritus.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">One that hath done himselfe displeasure.</trans> <I>Istuc gaudeo, Vtut erga me merlta.</I> Plant. <trans lang="en">I am glad of that, howsoe<*>er she hath dese rued at my hand.</trans> <I> Mereri.</I> Ter. <trans lang="en">To deserue well by doing a good furne.</trans> <I>Sæpe quod veliem meritam scio.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">I know that by doing me pleasure, thee hath often deserued that I should be willing.</trans> <I> Mereri.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To serue in warre: to be a souldiour.</trans> <I>Apud Hyeronimum meruerant sub eis, & Annibalis beneficium habebant.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <I>Duodecim æris meruit.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> Ære merent paruo. Lucan. <I>Sub Hasdrubale imperatore meruir.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">He was souldioue or serued in warre vnder Hasdruball.</trans> <I>Merere equo & Merere equo publico.</I> Plin. <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To be a mã of armes: to serue in warre as a horseman.</trans> <I>Merere pedibus.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To be a foote man in warre.</trans> <I>Alicui merere.</I> <bibl><author>Stat.</author></bibl> Lucan. <trans lang="en">To do seruice vnder one.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mĕrĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a., and mĕrĕor, ĭtus, 2, v. dep. [cf. Gr. me/ros, mei/romai, mo/ros, etc.; hence, to receive one's share; cf. II. below], to deserve, merit, to be entitled to, be worthy of a thing; constr. with acc., with ut, with ne, with inf., and absol.I. In gen. (a). With acc.: mereri praemia, Caes. B. G. 7, 34: laudem, id. ib. 1, 40, 5; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 18, 60: nec minimum decus, Hor. A. P. 286: amorem, Quint. 6 prooem.: favorem aut odium, id. 4, 1, 44: gratiam nullam, Liv. 45, 24, 7; Quint. 4, 9, 32: fidem, Vell. 2, 104 fin.: summum honorem, Juv. 6, 532: supplicium, id. 6, 219.—(b). With ut: respondit, sese meruisse, ut decoraretur, Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 232.—(g). With ne: mereri, ne quis, Plin. 35, 2, 2, 8.—(d). With inf.: quae merui vitio perdere cuncta meo, Ov. Tr. 5, 11, 16: credi, Quint. 10, 1, 72: sanctus haberi, Juv. 8, 25.—(e) Absol.: dignitatem meam, si mereor, tuearis,
if I deserve it
, Cic. Fam. 10, 17, 3.—In a bad sense: meruisse supplicium, Ov. M. 5, 666.—II. In partic. A.To earn, gain, get, obtain, acquire: quid meres? quantillo argenti te conduxit Pseudulus?Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 95: iste, qui meret HS. vicenos, Varr. ap. Non. 4, 296: non amplius duodecim aeris, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 28: ne minus gratiae praecipiendo recta quam offensae reprendendo prava mereamur, Quint. 4, 2, 39: nomen patronorum, id. 6, 4, 5: indulgentiam, principis ingenio, Tac. Dial. 9 fin.: nomen gloriamque merere, id. H. 2, 37: famam, id. ib. 2, 31; id. A. 15, 6: ancillā natus diadema Quirini meruit, Juv. 8, 260: odium, Caes. B. G. 6, 5, 3: quantum quisque uno die mereret, Suet. Calig. 40 fin.: aera, Hor. A. P. 345. —With ut (rare): quem ego ut non excruciem, alterum tantum auri non meream, would not give up torturing him for, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 65: neque ille sibi mereat Persarum montes ... ut istuc faciat, would not do it for, etc., id. Stich. 1, 1, 24.— B.To get by purchase, to buy, purchase: uxores, quae vos dote meruerunt, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 124: quid arbitramini Rheginos merere velle, ut ab eis marmorea Venus illa auferatur?
what do you think they would take? for what price would they let it be carried away?
, Val. Fl. 1, 519.—C. In milit. lang., mereri and merere stipendia, or simply merere (lit., to earn pay), to serve for pay, to serve as a soldier, serve in the army: mereri stipendia, Cic. Cael. 5, 11: meruit stipendia in eo bello, id. Mur. 5, 12: adulescens patre suo imperatore meruit, id. ib.: complures annos, Caes. B. G. 7, 17: triennio sub Hannibale, Liv. 21, 4 fin.: Romanis in castris, Tac. A. 2, 10: in Thracia, Suet. Vesp. 2: merere equo,
to serve on horseback, in the cavalry
, Cic. Phil. 1, 8, 20: merere pedibus,
to serve on foot, in the infantry
, Liv. 24, 18: mereri aere (al. equo) publico, Varr. ap. Non. 345, 2.—D. Mereri (ante-class., merere) de aliquo, or de aliquā re, to deserve or merit any thing of one, to behave in any manner towards one, in a good or bad sense (in Plaut. also with erga): te ego, ut digna es, perdam, atque ut de me meres, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 22: ut erga me est merita, id. Am. 5, 1, 49: nam de te neque re neque verbis merui, ut faceres quod facis, id. Aul. 2, 2, 45: saepe (erga me; sc. illam) meritam quod vellem scio,
that she has often treated me as I desired
, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 37.—Esp.: bene, male, optime, etc., mereri, to deserve well, ill, etc.: de mendico male meretur, qui ei dat, etc., Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 58: de re publicā bene mereri, Cic. Fam. 10, 5, 2: de populi Romani nomine, id. Brut. 73, 254: melius de quibusdam acerbos inimicos mereri, quam eos amicos, qui dulces videantur, id. Lael. 24, 90: de re publica meruisse optime, id. Att. 10, 4, 5: perniciosius de re publicā merentur vitiosi principes, id. Leg. 3, 14, 32: stet haec urbs praeclara, quoquo modo merita de me erit, id. Mil. 34, 93: Paulus, qui nihil meruit, i. e.
was innocent
, Lact. 2, 16, 17: ita se omni tempore de populo Romano meritos esse, ut, Caes. B. G. 1, 11: Caesarem imperatorem bene de republicā meritum,
deserving well
, id. B. C. 1, 13: optime cum de se meritum judicabat, id. ib. 3, 99: milites mirifice de re publicā meriti, Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 3: homines de me divinitus meriti, id. Red. in Sen. 12, 30; cf.: te ego ut digna's perdam atque ut de me meres, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 22.— Hence, 1. mĕrens, entis, P. a., that deserves or merits any thing; in a good sense, deserving; in a bad sense, guilty; that has rendered himself deserving towards any one or of any thing; with de, rarely with dat.; esp. with bene, well-deserving (mostly poet. and post-class.): consul laudare, increpare merentes, Sall. J. 100: laurea decreta merenti, Ov. P. 2, 2, 91: quem periisse, ita de re publicā merentem, doleo, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 344, 23; so Inscr. Grut. 933, 5.— With dat.: quando tu me bene merentem tibi habes despicatui, Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 19.— In sup.: HOMINI BENE MERENTISSIMO, Inscr. Rein. cl. 16, 8; Inscr. Grut. 932, 7; ib. 1129, 3.—2. mĕrĭtus, a, um, P. a.a.Deserving: meriti juvenci, Verg. G. 2, 515.—Sup.: filiae meritissimae, Inscr. Rein. cl. 5, 35. —b.Pass., deserved, due, fit, just, proper, right: ignarus, laus an poena merita esset, Liv. 8, 7: triumphus, id. 39, 4, 6: iracundiam, neque eam injustam, sed meritam ac debitam fuisse,
just
, Cic. de Or. 2, 50, 203: mors, Verg. A 4, 696: noxia, committed, perpetrated, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 1: meritis de causis, for merited, i. e. just reasons, Dig. 48, 20.— Sup.: famā optimā et meritissimā frui, Plin. Ep. 5, 15.—Hence, 3. mĕrĭtum, i, n.a.That which one deserves, desert; in a good sense, reward, recompense; in a bad sense, punishment (only ante- and postclass.): nihil suave meritum est, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 75: specta denique, quale caelesti providentia meritum reportaverit,
reward, punishment
, App. M. 8, p. 214: delictorum, Tert. Apol. 21.—b.That by which one deserves any thing of another, a merit; esp. in a good sense, a service, kindness, benefit, favor (class.): propter eorum (militum) divinum atque immortale meritum, Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14: pro singulari eorum merito, id. Cat. 3, 6, 15: magnitudo tuorum erga me meritorum, id. Fam. 1, 1, 1: et hercule merito tuo feci,
according to your merits, as you deserved
, id. Att. 5, 11, 6: pro ingentibus meritis praemia acceperant, Tac. A. 14, 53: recordatio ingentium meritorum, Liv. 39, 49, 11; Curt. 8, 3, 14; Suet. Ner. 3; Sen. Ben. 3, 8, 2.—In Plaut. also in the sup.: meritissimo ejus, quae volet faciemus,
on account of his great merit
, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 147: merita dare et recipere, Cic. Lael. 8, 26: magna ejus sunt in me non dico officia, sed merita, id. Fam. 11, 17, 1.—Also demerit, blame, fault: Caesar, qui a me nullo meo merito alienus esse debebat,
without any fault of mine
, id. Sest. 17, 39: nullo meo in se merito,
although I am guilty of no offence against him
, Liv. 40, 15: leniter, ex merito quicquid patiare, ferendum est, Ov. H. 5, 7: ex cujusque merito scio me fecisse, Liv. 26, 31, 9: quosdam punivit, alios praemiis adfecit, neutrum ex merito, Tac. H. 4, 50; cf.: quod ob meritum nostrum succensuistis?Liv. 25, 6, 4.—B.Transf., worth, value, importance of a thing (poet. and post-class.): quo sit merito quaeque notata dies, Ov. F. 1, 7: negotiorum, Cod. Just. 8, 5, 2: aedificia majoris meriti, of greater value, Cod. Th. 15, 1, 30: loci, Mart. 8, 65, 7: primi saporis mella thymi sucus effundit, secundi meriti thymbra, tertii meriti rosmarinus, Pall. 1, 37, 3.—4. mĕrĭtō, adv., according to desert, deservedly, justly, often connected with jure (class.): quamquam merito sum iratus Metello, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 68, 158: merito ac jure laudantur, id. Cat. 3, 6, 14; cf.: te ipse jure optimo, merito incuses, licet, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 23: recte ac merito commovebamur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, 172: merito jam suspectus, Juv. 3, 221; 10, 208. —Sup.: meritissimo te magni facio, Turp. ap. Non. 139, 17; Caecil. ib. 18: me deridere meritissumo, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 49; Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 234; S. C. ap. Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 6; ap. Flor. 1, 9.—Post-class.: meritissime, Sol. 7, 18.—b. In partic.: libens (lubens) merito, a form of expression used in paying vows; v. libens, under libet.