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Saturday, January 27, 2018

incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim

between scylla and charbydis




Percy Bysshe Shelley's returning 
to the idiom in his 1820 essay 

A Defence of Poetry: 

"The rich have become richer,
 and the poor have become poorer;
 and the vessel of the state is driven
 between the Scylla and Charybdis

 of anarchy and despotism."

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