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scylla
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What does scylla mean?
proper noun
- A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.
- A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
- A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.
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proper noun
- The main belt asteroid 155 Scylla.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɪlə/
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But Scylla from her den, with open jaws, The sinking vessel in her eddy draws, Then dashes on the rocks.
Now to most men this would only have been a choice of evils, a progress from Scylla to Charybdis: not so to our Colonel.
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Truly then I fear you are damn’d both by father and mother; thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother.
I should be between the Scylla of dullness and the Charybdis of indiscretion, and I feel that I had far better confine myself strictly to the underground drama which was being played beneath the surface of Ruritanian politics.
An ideal image of the soul, like the composite creations of ancient mythology, such as the Chimera or Scylla or Cerberus, and there are many others in which two or more different natures are said to grow into one.