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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_99476" /> == | |||
<p> (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of [[Sicily]] opposite [[Scylla]] on the [[Italian]] coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31609" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31609" /> == | ||
<p> in | <p> in Greek mythology, was the daughter of [[Neptune]] and the Earth.- The myth makes her residence-the Sicilian strait. There is a dangerous eddy there, perhaps more formidable to the light-built ships of the ancients than it appears to us. - [[Charybdis]] is represented as, a rapacious woman, who robbed [[Hercules]] of his herds, land was therefore hurled into the sea by Jupiter's lightnings, still retaining her old nature. She lived in a rock under an overhanging fig-tree, and threatened. all passers-by with death and destruction. In order to still her hunger she devoured whole ships, with all in them. Three times every day she would swallow the sea-water and throw it out again with a loud noise, drowning everything. that came within reach. On the opposite. shore Scylla also destroyed the ships of mariners. Hence the Latin proverb, "Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdin." </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_99476"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/charybdis Charybdis from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_31609"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/charybdis Charybdis from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_31609"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/charybdis Charybdis from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:45, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Neptune and the Earth.- The myth makes her residence-the Sicilian strait. There is a dangerous eddy there, perhaps more formidable to the light-built ships of the ancients than it appears to us. - Charybdis is represented as, a rapacious woman, who robbed Hercules of his herds, land was therefore hurled into the sea by Jupiter's lightnings, still retaining her old nature. She lived in a rock under an overhanging fig-tree, and threatened. all passers-by with death and destruction. In order to still her hunger she devoured whole ships, with all in them. Three times every day she would swallow the sea-water and throw it out again with a loud noise, drowning everything. that came within reach. On the opposite. shore Scylla also destroyed the ships of mariners. Hence the Latin proverb, "Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdin."
