Book V, Epigram 52 (Ker)

Your bounty to me I remember and shall always keep in mind. Why, then, am I silent about it, Postumus? You speak of it. As often as I begin to report to someone your presents, he at once exclaims: "He himself had told me." These are things which two persons do not do nicely: one suffices for this work; if you want me to speak, be you yourself silent. Trust me; gifts, however great, Postumus, lose their value by the chattering of the giver.