Akademik

excel
verb
a) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

I excelled everyone else with my exam results.

b) To be much better than others.

If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate.


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