charybdim
Dictionary entries
- Entry →charybdis, charybdis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Latham (Medieval Word List)
- Age:
- Medieval
whirlpool; (see also Charybdis);; Charybdis (whirlpool Sicily/Italy); cruel person; whirlpool; tortuous cavity;
acc. sg.
Examples
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...madidas in carcere pinnas, contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim: uos anguilla manet longae cognata colubrae aut ~glacie aspersus..."XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...medium mare, non velut inhospitales Syrtis aut voracem Charybdim praetervehens tota in fugam vela torquebis? nusquam est periculosius..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...dehinc miracula promat, Antiphaten Scyllamque et cum Cyclope Charybdim. Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri, nec gemino bellum..."