Definition of "foemen"

He fell where the Cherubim encamp, / With his face to the flying foemen.

1908, James Ryder Randall, “Placide Bossier”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md., New York: John Murphy Company, page 44

Who were these foemen, who had taken with them to the house of the dead ten, or as some reports said, as many as twenty for every one of their own fallen?

2005, Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae‎ (Historical Fiction), Random House