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- recorded it in his Adagia (1515) under the Latin form of evitata Charybdi in Scyllam incidi (having escaped Charybdis I fell into Scylla) and also provided...
- phrase is "Between a rock and a hard place". The Latin line incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim ("he runs into Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis")...
- seafaring idiom 'He runs on Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis' (incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim), a parallel pointed out by Edmund Arwaker in...
- One line, referring to Virgil's Aeneid, is sometimes quoted: Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim("He runs into Scylla, wanting to avoid Charybdis")...
- it, but it is now seldom read. One line is sometimes quoted: Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim (You run into Scylla, desiring to avoid Charybdis)...