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
- D
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..." - M
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..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...dehinc miracula promat, Antiphaten Scyllamque et cum Cyclope Charybdim. Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri, nec gemino bellum..."