δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος → he marched on without finding any enemy, his route lay through a country bare of enemies
cottăna: (also cotona, coctona, and coctăna), ōrum, n. Syrian; Gr. κόττανα,
I a kind of small Syrian fig, Plin. 13, 5, 10, § 51; Mart. 7, 52; Juv. 3, 83; Stat. S. 4, 9, 28 al.
cottăna,¹⁶ v. coctana : Plin. 13, 51.
