Statuit tamen Metellus, quamquam et aestivorum tempus comitiorum mora inminuerat et expectatione eventus civium animos intentos putabat, non prius bellum adtingere quam maiorum disciplina milites laborare coegisset.
Although the delay of the elections had shortened the time for military action, and Metellus thought that the minds of his fellow citizens were aroused by their expectation of the outcome of the conflict, he resolved, nevertheless, not to engage in war until he had forced the soldiers to exert themselves in keeping with ancestral discipline.
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