and he cherished so warmly my father's affection for him that at the death of his wife, who was without children, he remarried, taking as wife my father's cousin, as he did not wish to dissolve the affinity with us. But after he had lived with her for only a short time, he suffered the same bereavement as his former wife.

After this he married a woman of Seriphos, belonging to a family of greater consequence than might be expected of a native of their island.The insignificance of Seriphos was proverbial; cf. Plat. Rep. 329e. Of this marriage were born Sopolis, Thrasylochus, and a daughter, who is my wife. These were the only legitimate children left by Thrasyllus and he made these his heirs when he died.