tum, versus ad urbem, alloquitur iuvenem, cui mos tramittere signa et belli summam primasque iubebat habenas, atque his praeformat dictis fingitque monendo: si factis nondum, Minuci, te cauta probare erudiit Fortuna meis, nec ducere verba ad verum decus ac pravis arcere valebunt.
As he turned his face to Rome, he addressed the younger man, who took over, as custom required, the colours and the supreme command, and spoke thus, instructing him beforehand and schooling him with warning: Minucius,a if you have not yet learned from my actions to approve caution, then words also will be too weak to attract you to true glory and to guard you from mistakes.
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