scylla
Speech parts
1. scylla - Noun
2. Scylla - Proper noun
Meaning
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
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The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
In popularizing a scientific development it was always crucial to sail the narrow strait between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public befuddlement.
Between the Charybdis of inaccuracy and the Scylla of abstruseness, the course is narrow and the sea is rough.
In avoiding Charybdis, he falls into Scylla.
After his triumph, he punished Scylla for her treachery against her father by tying her to a boat and dragging her until she drowned.
Another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus.