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 1     I,    105|         did not seek out eminent merit, and yet he detested vice.
 2     I,    106| confidence in their influence or merit. A plausible profession
 3   III,     57|         and a recompense only of merit. In secret conferences to
 4    IV,     54|       despise fame is to despise merit." ~ ~
 5     V,      3|         few who had no hope from merit (and public calamities are
 6    XI,     27|    obtained, without expense, by merit in the candidates or by
 7    XI,     29|        this city all conspicuous merit, wherever found. And indeed
 8  XIII,      9|         as it seemed, a field to merit. The armies of the East
 9  XIII,     71|      obedience he was adding the merit of subjecting his tribe
10   XIV,     66|         who had some respect for merit, coupled with the fact that
11   XIV,     70|      many far inferior to you in merit have obtained more. I am
12   XIV,     79|        regarded as a conspicuous merit, drove Octavia from him,
13   XVI,      4|     judges, to win the honour by merit. First, he recited a poem