{Joined in the charge} (sunepethento). Second aorist
middle indicative of sunepitith(886d)i, old verb, double compound,
to place upon (epi) together with (sun), to make a joint
attack, here only in the N.T. {Affirming} (phaskontes).
Alleging, with the accusative in indirect assertion as in  25:19  Ro 1:22  (nominative with infinitive, Robertson, _Grammar_, p.
1038). {Were so} (hout(9373) echein), "held thus," common idiom.