were embroiling
- past progressive of embroil.
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Diophanes being afterwards General of the Achaeans, and hearing the Lacedaemonians were bent on new commotions, resolved to chastise them; they, on the other side, being set upon war, were embroiling all Peloponnesus.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
