Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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τῶν συγγενῶν ‘And in this painful office not one of his relatives thought proper to bear a part; nay, not one of them even came to visit him, with the exception of his mother and sister, who only made matters worse, for they were ill when they came from Troezen, so that they required nursing themselves’. οὐδεὶς ἠξίωσεν...ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἀφίκετο: ἀλλά here= ‘nay’, ‘what is more’: the commoner form would be, οὐδείς... οὐχ ὅπως ἠξίωσε (not only did not), ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἀφίκετο (but did not even...). — ἐπισκεψόμενος. The Modern Greek for making a visit or call is ἐπισκέπτομαι, a visit ἐπίσκεψις, a visiting-card ἐπισκεπτήριον.

πλέον θάτερον ἐποίησαν ‘made matters worse’. θάτερον= τὸ κακόν. Soph. Phil. 503, παθεῖν μὲν εὖ παθεῖν δὲ θἄτερα: O. C. 1443, ταῦτά γ᾽ ἐν τῷ δαίμονι | καὶ τῇδε φῦναι χἀτέρᾳ, that they should issue thus [i.e. happily] or otherwise. Dem. In Androt. § 12, ὅσα πώποτε τῇ πόλει γέγονεν ἢ νῦν ἔστιν αγαθὰ ἢ θάτερα, ἵνα μηδὲν εἴπω φλαῦρον. Pind. Pyth. III. 60, δαίμων ἕτερος, where schol., ὁ κακοποιός, ὡς πρὸς (as contrasted with) τὸν ἀγαθοποιόν.

οὐκ ἀπεῖπον οὐδ᾽ ἀπέστην, κ.τ.λ. ‘I did not lose heart, or desert my post’. Cp. Philipp. § 85, p. 137, οὐ μὴν ἀποστατέον ἐστίν, I must not desist from my task. — ἐνοσήλευον, ‘nursed him, with the help of one attendant’. Anaxilas (Middle Comedy) Μάγειροι (Meinek. Com. Frag. 501), τί σὺ λέγεις; ἰχθύδια; συσσίτιον (Mein. σύσσιτον οὖν) μέλλεις νοσηλεύειν ὅσον: ‘What? broil fish?’ (instead of more solid food): — ‘what invalid's fare you are going to give your mess!’ νοσηλεία, the care of the sick, Plut. Lycurg. 10, (a luxurious life) τρόπον τινὰ νοσηλείας καθημερινῆς δεομένην, in need, as it were, of daily nursing.

ἐκείνων θαυμάζειν, εἰ μή cp. Lys. or. XXXIV. § 2, note, p. 240.