Esteems it nobler to die honored man

Beneath Mannaia, than live centuries

Disgraced in the eye o' the world. We find Saint Paul

No recreant to this faith delivered once:

"Far worthier were it that I died," cries he,

Expedit mihi magis mori, "than

That any one should make my glory void,"

Quam ut gloriam meam quis evacuet!

See, ad Corinthienses: whereupon

Saint Ambrose makes a comment with much fruit,