Turpionis nostri rogata profero, allego necessitates, extrema deploro, quae duriora maerentibus amicis hinc viderentur, quod faenore ligatus corpore solveretur: meminisset ergo professionis novae, sodalitatis antiquae, exactorumque circumlatrantum barbaram instantiam indultis tantisper indutiis moderaretur; et, si decessisset aeger, tribueret heredibus annui luctus tempus immune; si, quod optarem, pristinam Turpio salutem recuperasset, indulgeret exhausto per otium facultatem convalescendi.
I brought forward the request of our friend Turpio, pleaded his hard circumstances, and lamented his desperate illness, which I said, seemed to his sad friends all the harder because he was being loosed from the body while bound by debt. Therefore, I continued, bethink you of your new profession and of your old comradeship and, by allowing him some measure of postponement, check the savage importunity of the bailiffs who noisily ring him round: and should the invalid die, exempt the heirs until the end of their year of mourning; if on the other hand, as I earnestly hope, Turpio should recover his health, let the exhausted man have the chance of regaining his strength in peace.
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