δήλωσιν ποιούμενος ὅτι ὁ ἐντυγχάνων τοῖς τε λίθοις καὶ τοξεύμασι διεφθείρετο → intimating that it was a mere matter of chance who was hit and killed by stones and bow-shots
hypĕrīcon: (-īcum), i, n., = ὑπέρεικον>,
I a plant, called also chamaepitys and corion, ground-pine, Plin. 26, 8, 53, § 85.