{They inclosed} (sunekleisan). Effective aorist active
indicative with perfective compound sun. {They shut together.
Were breaking} (dier(8873)seto). Imperfect passive singular
(diktua being neuter plural). This is the late form of the old
verb diar(8867)numi. The nets were actually tearing in two (dia-)
and so they would lose all the fish.