Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.
Yet, so that a pause would occur, until the soldiers whom he had instructed to gather should assemble, he responded to the diplomats that he would require some time to think; if there was anything they required, they could come back on the day before the 15th of April.