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Charybdis

Charybdis · f

a dangerous whirlpool between Italy and Sicily

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 4 · 3.89/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Chărybdis — Lewis & Short

Chărybdis, is, f., = *xa/rubdis,

I a dangerous whirlpool between Italy and Sicily, opposite to Scylla, now Calofaro; personified, a monstrous female being, Mel. 2, 7, 14; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 87: vasta, Lucr. 1, 723; Cat. 64, 156; Prop. 2 (3), 26, 54. implacata, Verg. A. 3, 420: Austro agitata, Ov. M. 8, 121: irrequieta, id. ib. 13, 730; acc. Charybdin, Hor. A. P. 145; Ov. M. 14, 75; so Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67: Charybdim, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146 Zumpt N. cr.; abl. Charybdi, Hor. C. 1, 27, 19; Juv. 15, 17.—

II Trop., any thing dangerous or destructive, Hor. C. 1, 27, 19: sanguinis, Prud. Cath. 6, 107: Charybdim bonorum voraginem potius (dixerim), Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 163.

In the wild

Charybdis Ovid, Ibis 385
Charybdis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9.79.1
Charybdi Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9.79.1
Charybdis Vergil, Aeneid 7.302
Charybdim Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.75
Charybdim Cicero, De Oratore 3.163

6 of 61 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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