24. Lastly, what we both had been unable to
effect, thou didst accomplish alone. Prosper, as I hear,
congratulated himself because he thought that on account of my
priesthood he need not restore what he had purloined, but he found thy
power alone to be greater than that of us both together. And so
he paid all, and was not ungrateful for thy moderation, and did not
scoff at thy modesty. But for whom, brother, didst thou seek to
gain that? We wished that should be the reward of thy labours
which was the proof of them. Thou didst accomplish everything,
and when having done all thou didst return, thou alone, who art to be
preferred to all, art torn from us; as if thou hadst put off death for
this end, that thou mightest fulfil the office of affection, and then
carry off the palm for capability.