Quae postquam Metello conperta sunt, quamquam inter Thalam flumenque proxumum in spatio milium quinquaginta loca arida atque vasta esse cognoverat, tamen spe patrandi belli, si eius oppidi potitus foret, omnis asperitates supervadere ac naturam etiam vincere adgreditur.
This became known to Metellus, and although he knew that between Thala and the nearest river lay dry and desolate country of up to fifty miles in extent, nevertheless, in the hope of ending the war if he gained possession of that town, he set out to surmount all the difficulties and even to conquer nature.
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