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) A cro of stone in Westminster, one of those erected by King Edward I in memory of Queen Eleanor. Char mouth. See Carr. (Stow 2. 100.) Comus 259; Charybdis (Charibdis). (4. P. L. 2. 1020; Animadv. (See also Scylla, Sicily.) 45) 3. 216. A famous whirlpool in the Straits of Me ina, on the side toward Sicily. The Circe of Homer describes it as follows: “But that other cliff, Ody eus, thou shalt note, lying lower, hard by the first: thou couldest send an arrow acro . And thereon is a great fig-tree growing, in fullest leaf, and beneath it mighty Charybdis sucks down black water, for thrice a day she spouts it forth, and thrice a day she sucks it down in terrible wise. Never mayest thou be there when she sucks the water, for none might save thee then from thy bane, not even the Earth-shaker!” {Ody ey 12. 101-7.) When Ody eus actually sees Charybdis she appears as follows: “Mighty Charybdis in terrible wise sucked down the salt sea water. As often as she belched it forth, like a cauldron on a great fire she would seethe up through all her troubled deeps, and overhead the spray fell on the tops of either cliff. But oft as she gulped down the salt sea water, within she was all plain to see through her troubled deeps, and the rock around roared horribly and beneath the earth was manifest swart with sand, and pale fear gat hold of my men. Toward her, then, we looked fearing destruction.” {lb. 12. 235- The roar Charybdis explains Milton’s “hoarce TriSandys, who sailed by Charybdis, writes:”This Whirle-pit is said to have thrown up her Wracks near Tauro- 44.) of nacrian shore.” menia, which is between it and Catania. Then surely by much more outragious than now, and more dangerous to the Sailer, by reason of their unskilfulne . As now, during our pa age, it was smooth and appeased whilst calm weather but when the winds began to ruffle, especially from the South, it forthwith runs round with violent eddies, so that many (P. 192.) Ve els by the means thereof do miscarry.” so heretofore, lasted; ch091.xhtml c 95