δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος → he marched on without finding any enemy, his route lay through a country bare of enemies
-δε, ἄλλοσε, ἄλλοθι, ἐκτός, ἔκτοθι, ἔκτοσθε, εἰς, ἀπάγω