malim

Cicero, very absurdly and unbecomingly for a philosopher, says with regard to Plato, Cum quo errare malim quam cum aliis recte sentire.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Nauteam bibere malim, si necessum sit, quam illam oscularier.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Sequere hac, egone haec patiar aut taceam? emori 810 me malim, quam haec non eius uxori indicem. ain tu? apud amicam munus adulescentuli fungare, uxori excuses te et dicas senem? praeripias scortum amanti atque argentum obicias lenae? suppiles clam domi uxorem tuam?

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

I do believe I love her -- seeing I know it for certain. verum quam illa umquam de mea pecunia ramenta fiat plumea propensior, mendicum malim mendicando vincere. numquam edepol viva me inridebit. nam mihi decretumst renumerare iam omne aurum patri.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Perdidisti me, sodalis. egone ut illam mulierem (489) capitis non perdam? perire me malis malim modis.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

And I could almost have said, with regard to the ancients, what Cicero, very absurdly and unbecomingly for a philosopher, says with regard to Plato, Cum quo errare malim quam cum aliis recte sentire.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

"Tenui quidem ueluti rimula mihi uideor intueri, sed ex te apertius cognoscere malim."

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

_Nam mori malim, quam societate Cinglianae causae nostros contaminare_.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

[1300] 'It was said of a dispute between two mathematicians, “malim cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere” that “it was more eligible to go wrong with one than right with the other.”

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

[212] "Sed filius minor natu adeò malè se gessit, ut malim transire in nepotem ex primo filio."

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886