τὸ μὴ γὰρ εἶναι κρεῖσσον ἢ τὸ ζῆν κακῶς → for it is better not to exist than to live in misery
sillybus: i, m., = σίλλυβον,I a kind of thistle, Plin. 22, 22, 42, § 85; 26, 7, 25, § 40 (but the true reading, Cic. Att. 4, 5, 3; 4, 8, a, 2, is sittybus, q. v.).
