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Definition or meaning of the English word Scylla
" 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 (n.).
