and his suffering was so great that we did not pass a single day without tears,Cf. Isoc. 14.47 for the same expression. but kept up our lamentations both for the hardships we both had to endure, and for our exile and our isolation. And there was no intermission at any time; for it was impossible to leave him or to seem to neglect him—to me this would have seemed more dreadful than the woes which afflicted us.