prehensibly

Updated: May 23, 2025

But incom prehensibly, through his own negligence and that of his lieutenants in Asia, reinforcements had wholly failed to reach him, so that he had nothing but the weak army now further decimated by sickness and desertion in its dissolute winter-quarters with which he had landed at Pteleum in the autumn of the previous year.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

But incom prehensibly, through his own negligence and that of his lieutenants in Asia, reinforcements had wholly failed to reach him, so that he had nothing but the weak army now further decimated by sickness and desertion in its dissolute winter-quarters with which he had landed at Pteleum in the autumn of the previous year.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States