Igitur Metellus ubi videt regis etiam tum animum ferocem esse, bellum renovari, quod nisi ex illius lubidine geri non posset, praeterea inicum certamen sibi cum hostibus, minore detrimento illos vinci quam suos vincere, statuit non proeliis neque in acie sed alio more bellum gerundum.
And so Metellus saw that the kings spirit was intrepid even then, that a war was being renewed which could not be waged except in keeping with the whim of Jugurtha, and that in addition the struggle with the enemy was an unequal one from his point of view, since the Numidians were defeated at a smaller cost than his own men won victory.
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