Acts 28:11

And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers.

The ship of Alexandria was more fortunate than the first, for it had made the port of Malta and waited until spring to depart, or at least until the most dangerous part of the winter was past.

After three months ... This would still have been somewhat early for Mediterranean sailing vessels; but the relatively short part of their voyage remaining, coupled with the probability of an early spring or an atypical spell of good weather, enabled their sailing, as it would appear, about the middle of February.

The Twin Brothers ... The Greek word here is "the Dioscuri," the mythical twin sons of Jupiter, pagan deities also called Castor and Pollux, and honored especially by sailors. The constellation Gemini is named for them, being one of the twelve sectors of the sky identified with the signs of the zodiac.

Two coincidences of interest in this section are (1) both ships carrying Paul were ships of Alexandria, and (2) The Twin Brothers was the name and figurehead not only of the new ship, but also of Rhegium, their second port of call on the way to Rome.[13]

This prevalence of the evidence in which the old pagan deities appeared still to dominate the hearts of the people must have been particularly offensive to Paul and Luke.