Scylla (ˈsɪlə) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Greek myth Compare Charybdis a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster believed to drown sailors navigating the Strait of Messina. She was identified with a rock off the Italian coast |
| 2. | between Scylla and Charybdis in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other |
| islands in the ocean at the remotest western end of the world, to which the souls of heroes and worthy persons were transported after death |
| a Trojan prince who awarded the apple of discord to Aphrodite and was by her help enabled to abduct Helen |