ἄμεινον γὰρ ἑαυτῷ φυλάττειν τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τοῦ ἑτέρων ἀφαιρεῖσθαι → for it is better to guard one's own freedom than to deprive another of his
istac-tĕnus: adv.,I thus far: istactenus tibi, Lyde, libertas data'st, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 58.