Lateranus
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)
Lătĕrānus: a,
I a family name in the gens Claudia, Sextia, and Plautia.—So, Plautius Lateranus, Tac. A. 15, 49; 60; Juv. 8, 148.—The splendid mansion of these Laterani on Mons Caelius (egregiae Lateranorum aedes, Juv. 10, 17; and: Lateranae aedes, Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 587) was given by the emperor Constantine to the bishop of Rome; afterwards the seat of the popes; now the Lateran.
Lătĕrānus: i, m. later,
I the god of the hearth (because hearths were made of bricks), Arn. 4, 130.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) Lătĕrānus,¹³ ī, m., nom d’une famille rom., branche des Claudii, des Sextii, des Plautii ; pl., Juv. 8, 148 ; Tac. Ann. 15, 49 || -nus, a, um, des Laterani : Prud. Symm. 1, 585.
(2) Lătĕrānus, ī, m. (later), dieu du foyer [foyer en briques] : Arn. 4, 130.
