Dum illa loquitur, Aeneas curam suam diligenter dissimulabat nec oculos demisit. Tandem paucis respondit: "Numquam, regina, negabo te bene meritam esse de me, nec me paenitebit tui meminisse, dum memoria mihi est, dum animam duco!
‘…I would never deny that you should benefit from me’
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bene mereor de is an idiom that might be translated “to earn someone’s gratitude.” I think this cropped up in a previous thread. See Lewis and Short mereo II.D:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=mereor&la=la&can=mereor0
“I will never deny that you have earned my gratitude.”
Quimmik…yes I was looking for that previous thread and couldn’t locate it. Many thanks for your patience.