{Two hundred three-score and sixteen souls} (diakosiai
hebdom(886b)onta hex). The Vatican Manuscript (B) has h(9373) in place
of diakosiai (two hundred) which Westcott and Hort put in the
margin. But Alford is probably correct in suggesting that the
scribe of B wrote h(9373) by repeating the omega in ploi(9369) with
s = 200 (Greek numeral). If the number 276 seems large, it is
to be remembered that we do not know the size of the ship.
Josephus (_Life_, 3) says that there were 600 on the ship that
took him to Italy. The grain ships were of considerable size. The
number included sailors, soldiers, and prisoners. A muster or
roll call may have been made.