Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.200 Scylla

  Here the sea-monster girt with dogs who savaged Odysseus's crew, conflated (as 'daughter of Nisus') with the Megarian Scylla; sung in Eclogue 6.

• The Aeneid §3.420 Scylla

  The cliff-monster of the Sicilian strait, with a maiden's torso and a belly of wolves and dolphins, who snatches sailors.

• The Eclogues §6.74 Scylla

  Here the sea-monster girt with dogs who savaged Odysseus's crew, conflated (as 'daughter of Nisus') with the Megarian Scylla; sung in Eclogue 6.