Atque ego scio, Quirites, qui postquam consules facti sunt et acta maiorum et Graecorum militaria praecepta legere coeperint: praeposteri homines, nam gerere quam fieri tempore posterius, re atque usu prius est.
I personally know of men, Citizens, who, after being elected consuls, have begun to study both the deeds of their forefathers and the military treatises of the Greeks; such individuals are wrongheaded, for whereas engaging in action follows upon election with respect to time, in practical experience it precedes it.
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