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... praebuere; ac nuntio regis cum relaturum se ad consilium...

cum (Scipio, I think) dixisset se relaturum ad consilium: "when S had said to the messenger/envoy of the king (Syphax) that he would refer (the matter) to his council...." Scipio, of course, had no intention of making peace.