Translation of "aemulatio" into English

Incepta vero unius cuiusvis et aemulationis vices progressionem ad felicem exitum non perdurent.

Individual initiative alone and the interplay of competition will not ensure satisfactory development.

namque Otho pueritiam incuriose, adulescentiam petulanter egerat, gratus Neroni aemulatione luxus.

For Otho's had been a neglected boyhood and a riotous youth, and he had made himself agreeable to Nero by emulating his profligacy.

Vae nobis si alterius prosperitas deiectio evaserit alterius vel causa futtilium et flagitiosarum aemulationum.

Woe to us if the abundance of some were to produce the humiliation of others or a sterile and scandalous rivalry.