Qui duabus de causis eo die dimicare nolebat, quod et nullos milites in navibus habebat et post horam X. diei res agebatur, nox autem allatura videbatur maiorem fiduciam illis, qui locorum notitia confidebant;
Now there were two reasons why Caesar was loth to fight an action that day: he had no troops on board; and it was now after the tenth hour as the matter now stood, and on the other hand nightfall would, he thought, inspire greater confidence in the enemy, who were relying on their local knowledge.
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