scylla in English

noun
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a female sea monster who devoured sailors when they tried to navigate the narrow channel between her cave and the whirlpool Charybdis. In later legend Scylla was a dangerous rock, located on the Italian side of the Strait of Messina.

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1. The data on Scylla is too delicate...

2. Closer to Scylla, farther from Wyatt.

3. Nearby was the monster Scylla and sailors passing through the area had to choose between facing (and surviving) either of the two, ergo the idiom "Between Scylla and Charybdis"

4. Scylla and Charybdis - a Rock and a Hard Place

5. We could move Scylla tomorrow, if we wanted.

6. The idiom "Between Scylla and Charybdis” comes from human sailors having to choose sailing past the Charybdis or past the Scylla

7. Averting Catastrophes: The Strange Economics of Scylla and Charybdis Ian W

8. That everyone thinks that Scylla Is just the Company's little Black book.

9. SCYLLA AND Charybdis IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Scylla and Charybdis are two famous monsters from Greek mythology, who worked in tandem on the opposite sides of a narrow strait of water

10. Holiday house in a central Scylla with all the amenities, ideal for couples and families.

11. Charybdis was a monstrously large and violent whirlpool that lived opposite the monster Scylla in a narrow strait

12. She also tells Odysseus to ask Scylla's mother, the river nymph Crataeis, to prevent Scylla from pouncing more than once.

13. Symbolically, the sea appears as monsters such as Scylla in mythology and represents the unconscious mind in dream interpretation.

14. Scylla and Charybdis were monsters from Greek mythology thought to inhabit the Straits of Messina, the narrow sea between Sicily and the Italian mainland.

15. The major storyline for the fourth season is about a team recruited by Homeland Security agent Don Self to obtain Scylla.

16. Under the circumstances, exhausted nature gave in; though saved from Scylla, our destiny was Charybdis, and we accordingly surrendered ourselves to a wash, breakfast, and the Brahminee Bull

17. Circe is a nymph, daughter of the sun god Helios, banished to the island of Aiaia for using magic to turn a romantic rival into the monster Scylla.

18. Scylla and Charybdis, in Greek mythology, two immortal and irresistible monsters who beset the narrow waters traversed by the hero Odysseus in his wanderings described in Homer ’s Odyssey, Book XII

19. The Abstruseness of the contest winners’ writing is deceptive. The Sense of Style His books succeed both as narratives and as arguments about our organic selves, holding steady between the Scylla of Abstruseness and the Charybdis of reductiveness

20. The Sirens, Scylla And Charybdis, The Cattle Of The Sun / "After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island

21. ‘Minos Besieged his town and his daughter Scylla cut the lock from his head and offered it to him.’ ‘So the order is to besiege civilian areas and use food and water as a weapon.’ ‘As Hannibal's army ravaged the Italian countryside and Besieged allied cities and towns, the …

22. Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, on the Italian mainland.Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily.