Therefore Xanthippe saying these words and others like them, groaned continually all the night, and Probus heard her and was greatly distressed, and arising from his couch when the morning came he went in to her, and seeing her eyes inflamed with tears, he said, Wherefore, lady, do you thus vex me, and will not tell me your pain?

2Tell it me, that I may do whatever is pleasing to you, and distress me not with your trouble.

3Xanthippe says to him, Be of good cheer rather, my lord, and be not vexed, for my trouble shall not harm you, but if I have found favour before you, go forth now to the salutation, and allow me to indulge myself in it as I will, for it is not possible for man to take from me the insatiable pain.

4And listening to her he went out immediately to receive the salutations of the men of the city, for he was the great man among them, and was also known to Nero, the Emperor.

5And sitting down, great grief appeared in his countenance, and being asked the reason of his grief by the chief men of the city, he said to them that he had fallen into many and unfounded charges.