“dextrum Scylla latus, laevum implācāta Charybdis obsidet, atque īmō barathrī ter gurgite vāstōs sorbet in abruptum fluctūs rūrsusque sub aurās ērigit alternōs, et sīdera verberat undā. at Scyllam caecīs cohibet spēlunca latebrīs ōra exsertantem et nāvīs in saxa trahentem. prīma hominis faciēs et pulchrō pectore virgō pūbe tenus, postrēma immānī corpore pistrīx delphīnum caudās uterō commissa lupōrum. To right Scylla, to left insatiable Charybdis bars. Three times her whirlpool-throat Guzzles seas down its sheer abyss, three times Returns them up to lash the spattered stars; While Scylla from her cave and sightless lair Darts out mouths, grapples ships upon the rock. Human tofore, a lovely-breasted girl Down to the womanhood; behind, a monster— Hateful bulk of wolves and dolphins grafted.”

—Helenus (III.420-8; tr. palazofhoon)