Qui cum haec legisset, haerens et ambigens diu quidnam id esset'nec enim meminerat secum aliquando super negotio ullo interiore hos quorum litteras acceperat collocutos'epistulas ipsas per baiulum qui portarat, iuncto milite ad Malarichum remisit, obsecrans ut doceret aperte quae vellet, non ita perplexe; nec enim intellexisse firmabat, ut subagrestem et simplicem, quid significatum esset obscurius.
When the tribune had read this, hesitating for a long time and puzzling as to what in the world it meant (for he did not remember that the men whose letter he had received had ever talked with him about any confidential business), he sent the identical letter back to Malarichus by the carrier who had brought it, and with him a soldier, begging Malarichus to explain openly what he wanted, and not so enigmatically. For he declared that, being a somewhat rude and plain man, he had not understood what had been obscurely intimated.
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