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... Corbuloni non vitatus, ut dissimilitudo fortunae gloriam augeret. neque...

dissimilitudo fortunae: syncrisis, a rhetorical figure or exercise in which opposite persons or things are compared, usually in order to evaluate their relative worth. Syncrisis is a type of antithesis. Plural: syncrises. Here, Tacitus comparing Corbulo and Paetus.