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... cum Corbulone certaret, Corbulo meritae tot per annos gloriae...

meritae, ' earned,' ' acquired.' (The word does not necessarily convey the notion of ' merit,' cf. ' vulnera mereri,' Germ. 14, 5 ; 'ex eo quod meruerat odio,' Caes. B. G. vi 5, 2.) Furneaux comm. "He would not put at risk (lit., "make further danger of/to the glory") the glory earned...."