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Charybdis aut Scylla
also: Charybdis or Scylla
The twin perils of the Strait of Messina in Homeric legend — Charybdis the whirlpool, Scylla the dog-girt rock. Cicero turns the pair into a metaphor for Verres's seaborne predations on Sicily (In Verrem 2.5).
Reading notes
- Second Philippic §66 What Charybdis was ever so voracious?
Charybdis was the all-devouring whirlpool of Greek myth (paired with the monster Scylla); Cicero makes it a figure for Antony's reckless squandering of Pompey's wealth.