digressio
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)
dīgressĭo: ōnis, f. digredior,
I a parting, separating; a going away, departing, departure. *
I Lit. (in this signif. more freq. digressus): congressio, tum vero digressio nostra, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 4.—More freq.,
II Trop., a going aside, deviation; esp. in lang., digression: qualis ad adjuvandum (sc. amicum) digressio (sc. a recto, referring to Cic. Lael. 17), Gell. 1, 3, 14: a proposita oratione, Cic. Brut. 85; so of speech, id. Inv. 1, 51; id. de Or. 2, 77, 312; 3, 53 fin.; Quint. 4, 2, 19; 9, 1, 28; 9, 2, 56 al.
