Charybdis
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Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Kharubdis).
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Charybdis
- A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
- (Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
- A general term for any dangerous whirlpool
- 1638: Herbert, Sir Thomas, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
- ...that night, wee ſailed merrily by the Maſcarenas, a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes...
- 1832 Bell, James A system of geography, popular and scientific
- The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients.
- 1842 Schiller, Friedrich poem Der Taucher (written in 1797) published in English in Blackwood's Magazine volume 52
- Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave/Casts roaringly up the charybdis again...
- 1638: Herbert, Sir Thomas, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
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Translations[edit]
Greek mythological monster
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