sed cum pater tuus morti propinquae morbo incumbente succumberet atque ob hoc ipsum publica auctoritas male valentem patremfamilias violentius ad reformandum debitum artaret nec sustineri valeret improbitas executorum, proficiscenti mihi Tolosam iam desperatus litteris imperavit, ut me rogante creditor vester modicas saltim largiretur indutias.
But when your father was sinking under a weight of illness and death seemed imminent, and when for that very reason the authority of the law was the more stringently pressing the ailing paterfamilias to discharge his debt and the effrontery of the bailiffs could not be withstood, he was driven to desperation and wrote to me as I was setting out for Toulouse, adjuring me to intercede and obtain from your creditor at least a short period of grace.
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