mallet

mallet is a Latin form of malo, meaning “prefer”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 92 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.80: … , quod multis auxerat partibus. Itaque Androsthenes, praetor Thessaliae, cum se victoriae Pompei comitem esse mallet quam socium Caesaris in rebus adversis, omnem ex agris multitudinem servorum ac liberorum in oppidum cogit po …

Lucan, Civil War 8.20: Mallet, et obscuro tutus transire per orbem

All forms of malo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.