sed ei Melissa, quam uxoris loco habebat, temperato [inter] studia non interpellandi et inediae succurrendi officio dexteram suam necessariis usibus aptabat.
But Melissa, whom he had in lieu of a wife, adjusted her duty so as on the one hand not to interrupt his studies and on the other to minister to his fasting, adapting her own hand to the necessary uses.
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