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Scylla
The rock and monster of the Sicilian strait, byword for the impossible joining of Sicily to Italy.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.31.9 Scylla
The monstrous rock of the Strait of Messina, paired with the whirlpool Charybdis; together the proverbial twin perils of the narrow sea off Sicily.
- Hercules (Mad) §379 Scylla
The monstrous rock of the Sicilian strait; Megara swears peace with Lycus is as impossible as joining Sicily to Italy.
- Hercules on Oeta §234 Scylla
The sea-monster of the Sicilian strait, paired with Charybdis as a byword for terror; a jealous wife, says the Nurse, is worse.
- Medea §346 the maiden of Sicilian Pelorus
Scylla, the dog-girt sea-monster of the Sicilian strait by Cape Pelorus.
- Natural Questions §3.29.7 Scylla
The rock-monster opposite Charybdis in the strait, to be effaced by the flood.
- Thyestes §546 Scylla
The rock-monster of the Sicilian strait, opposite Charybdis.