Meaning of Charybdis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
2. A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
   Greek
3. Any dangerous whirlpool.

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Examples

“I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.”

“…that night, wee ſailed merrily by the Maſcarenas, a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes…”

“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.”

“Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave / Casts roaringly up the charybdis again…”

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