1After I left you, I was no less with you than when I was at your side. 1For I read your book, going over again and again above all — for I will not lie — what you wrote about me, on which you were indeed most copious. 1How many things, how varied, how far from the same you said about the same man, and yet not contradictory! 2Shall I praise you and thank you at the same time? 2I can do neither sufficiently and, if I could, I should fear that it would be arrogant to praise you for the very things for which I was thanking you. 2I will add just this, that everything seemed to me all the more praiseworthy for being so delightful, and all the more delightful for being so praiseworthy.
2Farewell.