If the description of Paul's shipwreck is remarkable in its detail, the event it covers must have been rather banal throughout history. Drifting at sea for two weeks, the travellers, all 276 of them, ended up swimming to shore on the island of Malta after part of the crew had tried to leave in smaller boats and the food had eventually been thrown overboard in a last effort to rescue the ship from final destruction as it was run aground. The apostle Paul's journey from Caesarea to Rome did not stop with that. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest raged, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackle overboard. they would run on the Syrtis they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven. After hoisting it they took measures to undergird the ship then fearing that. By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda we were scarcely able to get the ship's boat under control. noun the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it.
to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden discard. Since the ship was caught and could not be turned head-on into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven. Definition of jettison verb (used with object) to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. INTRODUCTION Soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete. This chapter is written in complete agreement with that conviction. Niall Ferguson, in his book The Ascent of Money (2008), writes: ‘only understand the origins of an institution or instrument and you will find its present day role much easier to understand’. This chapter is therefore breaking new ground at least from the general standpoint of management scholarship. xii), whilst business historians seldom venture beyond the 18th century (Vink, 2002, p. So to write a chapter on this theme with respect to the Ancient World is accordingly a novel enterprise and perhaps all the more so seeing that its businessmen have received ‘scant attention’ from ‘lifelong classical scholars’ (McNeill, 2011, p. 578 Holden and Michailova, 2014) that the issues of language as a central component of business communication are under-represented in the contemporary literature on international business. Janssens et al., 2004 Peltokorpi, 2007 López-Duarte and Vidal-Suárez, 2010, p. There is a general consensus among scholars (e.g.