Isocrates, Aegineticus
George Norlin, Ed.

[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;