Scylla,

daughter of Nisus, promised to deliver Megʹara into the hands of Minos. To redeem this promise she had to cut off a golden hair on her father’s head, which she effected while he was asleep. Minos, her lover, despised her for this treachery, and Scylla threw herself from a rock into the sea. At death she was changed into a lark, and Nisus into a hawk. Scylla turned into a rock by Circe “has no connection” with the daughter of Nisus.

“Think of Scylla’s fate.


Changed to a bird, and sent to fly in air,

She dearly pays for Nisusʹ injured hair.”


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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Scriptorium
Scriptures
Scudamore (Sir)
Scudding under Bare Poles
Scullabogue Massacre
Sculls
Sculpture
Scutch
Scuttle
Scuttle Out (To)
Scylla
Scylla
Scythian or Tartarian Lamb (The)
Scythian Defiance
Sea
Sea-blue Bird of March (The)
Sea Deities
Sea-girt Isle
Sea-green Incorruptible (The)
Sea Legs
Sea Serpent

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