Neque Metellus idcirco minus, sed pariter ac si hostes adessent, munito agmine incedere, late explorare omnia, illa deditionis signa ostentui credere et insidiis locum temptari.
Metellus did not for that reason advance with his line of march any less protected but proceeded just as if the enemy were close at hand; he reconnoitered the country far and wide; he believed that those indications of submission were a pretense and that a favorable place for an ambush was being investigated.
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