Scylla

, a daughter of Nisus king of Megara, who became enamoured of Minos, as that monarch besieged her father’s capital. To make him sensible of her pa ion, she informed him that she would deliver Megara into his hands if he promised to marry her. Minos consented, and as the prosperity of Megara depended on a golden hair, which was on the head of Nisus, Scylla cut it off as her father was asleep, and from that moment the sallies of the Mega reans were unsucce ful, and the enemy easily became master of the place. Scylla was disappointed in her expectations, and Minos treated her with such contempt and ridicule, that she threw herself from a tower into the sea, or, according to other accounts, she was changed into a lark by the gods, and her father into a hawk. Ovid , Tristia , bk. 2 , li. 393 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 34 .— Pro pert i us , bk. 3 , poem 19, li. 21 .— Hyginus , fable 198.— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 405 , . ――A daughter of Typhon, or, as some say, of Phorcys, who was greatly loved by Glaucus, one of the deities of the sea. Scylla scorned the addre es of Glaucus, and the god, to render her more propitious, applied to Circe, whose knowledge of herbs and incantations was universally admired. Circe no sooner saw him than she became enamoured of him, and instead of giving him the required a istance, she attempted to make him forget Scylla, but in vain. To punish her rival, Circe poured the juice of some poisonous herbs into the waters of the fountain where Scylla bathed, and no sooner had the nymph touched the place than she found every part of her body below the waist changed into frightful monsters like dogs, which never ceased barking. The rest of her body a umed an equally hideous form. She found herself supported by 12 feet, and she had six different heads, each with three rows of teeth. This sudden metamorphosis so terrified her, that she threw herself into that part of the sea which separates the coast of Italy and Sicily, where she was changed into rocks, which continued to bear her name, and which were universally deemed by the ancients as very dangerous to sailors, as well as the whirlpool of Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. During a tempest the waves are described by modern navigators as roaring dreadfully when driven into the rough and uneven cavities of the rock. Homer , Ody ey , bk. 12 , li. 85 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 14 , li. 66 , . — Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 34 .— Hyginus , fable 199. Some authors, as Pro pert i us , bk. 4 , poem 4, li. 39 , and Virgil , eclogue 6, li. 74 , with Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 500 , have confounded the daughter of Typhon with the daughter of Nisus. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 424 , . ――A ship in the fleet of Æneas, commanded by Cloanthus, . Virgil , Æneid , bk. 5 , li. 122 .