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καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
cessim: (cossim), adv. cesso; cf. coxim,
I bending or turning in; hence, also, turned backwards, backwards (mostly anteand post-class.): cum domum ab Ilio cessim revertero, Varr. ap. Non. p. 247, 26; p. 276, 9: cessim ire, Dig. 9, 2, 52, § 2; Just. 2, 12, 7: lagena orificio cessim (obliquely) dehiscente patescens, App. M. 2, p. 121, 8.
