| 40. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with kai {καί | kaí} linking this action to the preceding narrative. The participle perielontes {περιελόντες | peri-elón-tes} ‘having removed’ precedes the imperfect eiōn {εἴων | eí-ōn} ‘they were letting go’, forming a circumstantial participial clause that describes the initial act of releasing the anchors. The prepositional phrase eis tēn thalassan {εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν | eis tḕn thá-las-san} specifies that the anchors are left in the sea. The adverb hama {ἅμα | há-ma} ‘at the same time’ introduces a secondary sequence of participles, anentes {ἀνέντες | a-nén-tes} ‘having loosened’ and eparantes {ἐπάραντες | e-pá-ran-tes} ‘having hoisted’, which together outline coordinated preparations: unfastening zeuktērias tōn pēdalion {ζευκτηρίας τῶν πηδαλίων | zeuk-tē-rí-as tōn pē-da-lí-ōn} ‘fastenings of the rudders’ and raising artemōna {ἀρτέμωνα | ar-té-mō-na} ‘foresail’. The dative tē pneousē {τῇ πνεούσῃ | tē pneoú-sē} indicates that the sail is set toward the blowing wind. Finally, the imperfect kateichon {κατεῖχον | ka-teî-chon} ‘they were making for’ expresses the ongoing effort to drive the vessel eis ton aigialon {εἰς τὸν αἰγιαλόν | eis tòn ai-gia-lón} ‘to the beach’, preserving the sense of sustained motion toward the shoreline. |