Isocrates, Aegineticus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 11

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[11] And why need I speak further of our intimacy at home?¹ In truth, not even in exile did we care to be apart. Finally, when Thrasylochus was striken with the wasting disease and suffered a long illness—his brother Sopolis had previously died² and his mother and sister had not arrived³—seeing him so completely destitute of companionship I nursed him with such unremitting care and devotion that he thought he could never repay me with a gratitude adequate to my services;

Aegineticus. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Aegineticus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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[11] καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν τὰς οἴκοι χρήσεις; ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ φυγόντες ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων ἠξιώσαμεν γενέσθαι. τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον φθόῃ σχόμενον αὐτὸν καὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἀσθενήσαντα, καὶ τοῦ μὲν ἀδελφοῦ Σωπόλιδος αὐτῷ πρότερον τετελευτηκότος, τῆς δὲ μητρὸς καὶ τῆς ἀδελφῆς οὔπω παρουσῶν, μετὰ τοσαύτης ἐρημίας γενόμενον οὕτως ἐπιπόνως καὶ καλῶς αὐτὸν ἐθεράπευσα, ὥστʼ ἐκεῖνον μὴ νομίζειν ἀξίαν μοι δύνασθαι χάριν ἀποδοῦναι τῶν πεπραγμένων.

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Aegineticus

1. That is, at Siphnos.

2. Sopolis died in Lycia (cf. Isoc. 19.40 ).

3. At Aegina.

Isocrates Aegineticus 11

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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