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 died Sopolis died in Lycia
 (cf. Isoc. 19.40 ). and his mother and sister had not
 arrived At 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;