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
(see also ἧμαι): sit at