for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.

Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.

επειδη, εαν δεν εβραδυνομεν, βεβαια εως τωρα δευτεραν ταυτην φοραν ηθελομεν επιστρεψει.

For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.