²¹ For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

²¹ Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new .)