His ac talibus imperator inter spem metumque iactabatur, ingravescente hiemis magnitudine, suspectisque per avios tractus insidiis, inter quae etiam tumultum exasperati militis verebatur.
For these and similar reasons the emperor wavered between hope and fear, since the severity of winter was drawing near and attacks were to be looked for in that trackless region, while also he feared mutiny of the exasperated soldiers.
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