Ad Quintum Mucium libri
Ex libro XIII
Dig. 46,3,4Pomponius libro tertio decimo ad Quintum Mucium. et magis quod meo nomine, quam quod pro alio fideiussorio nomine debeo: et potius quod cum poena, quam quod sine poena debetur: et potius quod satisdato, quam quod sine satisdatione debeo.
Pomponius, On Quintus Mucius, Book III. And this preferably applies to a debt which I owe in my own name, rather than to one for which I have given sureties; and rather to one which a penalty is attached than to one in which no penalty is involved; and rather to one for which security has been furnished than to one which has been contracted without it.