Scotch Borders

Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 223. The land along the boundary of England and Scotland. Scotland (Albania, Albany, Caledonia, North, Scotia). Forcers of Consc. 12; Fairfax 7; Quint. Nov. 4; Mansus 48; Reformation (1) 3. 7, 14 (twice); (1. (twice), 367; (twice); 4. (1) 339; (13) 3. 444; (15) 3. 452; (thrice); Hist. Brit. (1) 103; (4) 5. 220, 222, 223, 224, 234; 5. 8. (8) 6. 508; 3. 348; (4) 3. 141; 13, Kings 14, 17, 147, 153; 20, (5) 5. 21; (2) Commonplace 186 5. 78, 195, 196 (twice), 285; Hirelings 5. 387; Easy Way 5. 422, 427; (10) 6. 166; & Mag. Ormond 4. 575, 576, 577 (6) 5. 266, 284, Notes: Grif. 5. 396, 399; (1) 6. 24; (2) (28) 3. 529; 474, 475 (twice), 476, 482, 493; 82, 89; (5) 3. 390; (12) 3. 430, 432 (thrice); (13) 3. 441 (8) 3. (3) 5. Animadv. (1. 2) 3. 189; (2) 3. 54, 55; Eikonocl. 195; 8) 3. (11) 6. 172, 174; (twice), 188, Defens. Moscovia 245; Sixteen Let. 16. Scylla (Whirlpool). (4. 45) 3. 216. Comus 257; P. L. 2. 660, 1020; Animadv. (See also Charybdis.) A rock on the Cal a brian shore of the Straits of Me ina. Homer writes: “‘On the other part are two rocks, whereof the one reaches with sharp peak to the wide heaven, and a dark cloud encompa es it; this never streams away, and there is no clear air about the peak neither in summer nor in harvest tide. No mortal man may scale it or set foot thereon, not though he had twenty hands and feet. For the rock is smooth and sheer, as it were polished. And in the midst of the cliff is a dim cave turned to Erebus, towards the place of darkne , whereby ye Not with an shall even steer your hollow ship, noble Ody eus. arrow from a bow might a man in his strength reach from his hollow ship into that deep cave. And therein dwelleth Scylla, yelping terribly. Her voice indeed is no greater than the voice of a new-born whelp, but a dreadful monster is she, nor would any look on her gladly, not if it were a god that met her. Verily she hath twelve feet all dangling down, and six necks exceeding long, and on each a hideous head, and therein three rows of teeth set thick and close, full of black death. Up to her middle is she sunk far down in the hollow cave, but forth she holds her heads from the dreadful gulf, and there she fishes, swooping round the rock, for dolphins or sea-dogs, or whatso greater beast she may anywhere take, whereof the deep-voiced A mph i trite feeds countle flocks. Thereby no sailors boast that they have fled scathele ever with their ship, for with each head she carries off a man, whom she hath snatched from out the dark-prowed ship. 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 But take it mighty Charybdis sucks down black water. heed and swiftly drawing nigh to Scylla’s rock drive the ship past, since of a truth it is far better to mourn six of thy company in the ship, than all in the selfsame hour.’ … I paced the ship and cheered on my men, as I stood by each one and spake smooth words: … ‘Do ye smite the deep surf of the sea with your oars, as ye sit on the benches, if peradventure Zeus may grant us to escape from and shun this death. And as for thee, helmsman, thus I charge thee, and ponder it in thine heart seeing that thou wieldest the helm of the hollow ship. Keep the ship well away from this smoke and from the wave and hug the rocks, lest the ship, ere thou art aware, start from her course to the other Next we began to sail side, and so thou hurl us into ruin.’ up the narrow strait lamenting. For on the one hand lay Toward her, Scylla, and on the other mighty Charybdis. but Scylla meanwhile then, we looked fearing destruction;......... caught from out my hollow ship six of my company, the hardiest of their hands and the chief in might.” {Ody ey 12. 73-246.) Ody eus, who was going south from Circe’s Island (g. v.), steered to the larboard, thus shunning Charybdis by going close Sandys, who pa ed through the straits, says: “We to Scylla. came unto Scylla, which is not past twelve miles distant from Me ina: seated in the midst of a Bay, upon the neck of a narrow Mountain which thrust it self into the Sea; having at the uppermost end a steep high Rock whereon there standeth a Castle. And no doubt but the Fable was fitted to the place there being divers little sharp Rocks at the foot of the greater (the Dogs that so bark with the noise that is made by the repercu ed waters) frequented by Lamprons, and greater fishes that devoured the bodies of the drowned.” (P. 193.) See also Strabo 1.2. 15-6. The reference to Scylla as a whirlpool (P. L. 2. 1020) is unusual; Profe or Cook, in his edition of P. L. 1 and 2, refers to Ovid, Met. 14. 51, where it is said that Scylla was wont to visit a small whirlpool, where her transformation took place....; 272