Charybdis

Between Scylla and Charybdis.

Tom is caught between Scylla and Charybdis.

"Here Scylla, leftward sits Charybdis fell, / who, yawning thrice, her lowest depths laid bare, / sucks the vast billows in her throat's dark hell, / then starward spouts the refluent surge in air."

"Behold / Charybdis!" cries Anchises, "'tis the shore, / the dreaded rocks that Helenus foretold. / Row, comrades, for dear life, and let the oars catch hold."

I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.

…that night, wee ſailed merrily by the Maſcarenas, a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes…

The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients.

Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave / Casts roaringly up the charybdis again…