Learned Catius, entreated by our friendship and the gods, remember to introduce me to an audience[ with this great man], whenever you shall go to him. For, though by your memory you relate every thing to me, yet as a relater you can not delight me in so high a degree. Add to this the countenance and deportment of the man; whom you, happy in having seen, do not much regard, because it has been your lot: but I have no small solicitude, that I may approach the distant fountain- heads, and imbibe the precepts of[ such] a blessed life. 