{And they launched forth} (kai an(8863)hth(8873)an). First aorist
passive indicative of anag(935c), an old verb, to lead up, to put
out to sea (looked at as going up from the land). This nautical
sense of the verb occurs only in Luke in the N.T. and especially
in the Acts ( Ac 13:13  16:11  18:21  20:3,13  21:I,2  27:2,4,12,21  28:10f. ).