Ochus
From LSJ
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)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Ōchus: i, m., = Ὦχος.
I A river in Bactriana, that empties into the Oxus, Plin. 6, 16, 18, § 49; Curt. 7, 10, 15; Amm. 23, 6, 57.—
II A surname of Artaxerxes III., king of Persia, Curt. 10, 5, 23.—
III Son of Darius Codomannus, Curt. 4, 14, 22.
