pugilatus

δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος → he marched on without finding any enemy, his route lay through a country bare of enemies

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pŭgĭlātus: ūs, m. pugilor,
I a boxing, fighting with the cestus, pugilism, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 24; id. Capt. 4, 2, 13; Plin. 8, 22, 34, § 82.