And why need I speak further of our intimacy at home?That is, at Siphnos. 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 diedSopolis died in Lycia (cf. Isoc. 19.40). and his mother and sister had not arrivedAt Aegina.—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;