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ἵνα δὲ μή, ὁπότε λοῦσθαι δέοι, κινδυνεύῃ κατὰ τῆς κλίμακος καταβαίνουσα, ἐγὼ μὲν ἄνω διῃτώμην, αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες κάτω.

So that my wife did not endanger herself going down the stairs when he needed washing, I lived upstairs and the women lived downstairs.

καὶ οὕτως ἤδη συνειθισμένον ἦν, ὥστε πολλάκις ἡ γυνὴ ἀπῄει κάτω καθευδήσουσα ὡς τὸ παιδίον, ἵνα τὸν τιτθὸν αὐτῷ διδῷ καὶ μὴ βοᾷ.

And we were so used to this arrangement that my wife often went downstairs to sleep with the child, to breastfeed it and stop it crying.

εἵματα δ’ ἐνθάδ’ ἐγὼ πέμψω καὶ σῖτον ἅπαντα
ἔδμεναι, ὡς ἂν μή σε κατατρύχῃ καὶ ἑταίρους.

raiment will I send hither and all his food to eat, that he be not the ruin of thee and of thy men.

Jo Willmott | Ancient Greek sentences