1Not as a master to a master, nor as a pupil to a pupil — for so you write — but as a master to a pupil — for you are the master, I the opposite; 1and indeed you are calling me back to school, while I am still prolonging the Saturnalia — you have sent me your book. 2Could I have made a longer hyperbaton, and by this very fact prove that I am the man who ought to be called not only not your master, but not even your pupil? 2Still, I shall assume the role of master, and exercise against your book the right you have given me, all the more freely because I shall not be sending you anything of mine meanwhile on which you could take revenge.
2Farewell.