[Meaning] unsacked, unpillaged.
"Wanting to keep the land unravaged, they agreed to give two thousand measures of silver."[1]
*)adh/|wton: a)po/rqhton, a)prai/deuton. oi( de\ th\n gh=n a)dh/|wton e)/xein e)qe/lontes w(molo/ghsan a)rguri/ou staqma\ disxi/lia dw/sein.
The headword is probably extracted from the quotation given; if so, it is masculine/feminine accusative singular (rather than neuter nominative/accusative).
[1]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 2.6.24 (web address 1); again at
sigma 985. Hoping that it will protect their lands and city from plunder by the Persian army in 540 CE, the citizens of
Hierapolis (present-day Manbij, in north-central
Syria, Barrington Atlas map 67 grid F3) meet the ransom demand of Chosroes (cf.
chi 418); cf. Kaldellis (86) and further background at
alpha 2363,
alpha 2461,
alpha 3035,
alpha 3485,
alpha 4346,
gamma 422,
delta 326,
epsilon 1301,
epsilon 3331,
zeta 120,
iota 726,
lambda 100,
omicroniota 89,
sigma 1623, and
omega 116.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
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