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Sailing for Italy (pleon eis tēn Italian). This was the opportunity for which Lysias had been looking. So he put (enebibasen, first aorist active of embibazō, to cause to enter. Cf. epibantes in Act 27:2) 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.