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Touching (katachthentes). First aorist passive participle of katagō, to go down to land, just the opposite of anēchthēmen in Act 28:11from anagō,to go up to sea.
At Syracuse (eis Surakousas). The chief city of Sicily and eighty miles from Malta. Perhaps open weather and a southerly wind helped them across. Here it was that Alcibiades wrecked the power and glory of Athens. Why the ship spent three days we do not know.