I will make them good, and I will do my best that this beginning of a good report about me may daily be repeated.

So you may with perfect confidence fulfil your promise of being the trumpeter (buccinator) of my reputation.

For the errors of my youth have caused me so much remorse and suffering, that it is not only my heart that shrinks from what I did--my very ears abhor the mention of it.

I know for a fact that you have shared my trouble and sorrow, and I don't wonder; you always wished me to do well not only for my sake but for your own.

So as I have been the means of giving you pain, I will now take care that you shall feel double joy on my account.
"Let me tell you that my attachment to Cratippus is that of a son rather than a pupil: I enjoy his lectures, but I am especially charmed by his delightful manners.