{Sailing for Italy} (pleon eis t(886e) Italian). This was the
opportunity for which Lysias had been looking. So he put
(enebibasen, first aorist active of embibaz(935c), to cause to
enter. Cf. epibantes in verse  2 ) prisoners and soldiers on
board. This was a ship of Alexandria bound for Rome, a grain ship
( 38 ) out of its course because of the wind. Such grain ships
usually carried passengers.