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195: 161:(1552). There one is advised, much in the spirit of the commentary of Erasmus, that the risk of being envied for wealth or reputation is preferable to being swallowed by the Charybdis of poverty: "Choose the lesser of these evils. A wise man would rather be envied than miserable." Erasmus too had associated the proverb about choosing the lesser of two evils, as well as Walter of Châtillon’s line, with the Classical adage. A later English translation glossed the adage's meaning with a third proverb, that of "falling, as we say, out of the frying pan into the fire, in which form the proverb has been adopted by the French, the Italians and the Spanish." 133:(having escaped Charybdis I fell into Scylla) and also provided a Greek equivalent. After relating the Homeric account and reviewing other connected uses, he went on to explain that the proverb could be applied in three different ways. In circumstances where there is no escape without some cost, the correct course is to "choose the lesser of two evils". Alternatively it may signify that the risks are equally great, whatever one does. A third use is in circumstances where a person has gone too far in avoiding one extreme and has tumbled into its opposite. In this context Erasmus quoted another line that had become proverbial, 69: 38: 180: 60:", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings. The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes is seen as leading inevitably to disaster. 111:
off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as maritime hazards located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer's account,
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on its summit) and the whirlpool of arbitrary power (in the shape of an inverted crown), to the distant haven of liberty". This was in the context of the effect of the
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was advised to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool.
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Because of such stories, the bad result of having to navigate between the two hazards eventually entered proverbial use.
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carefully steering the British ship of state between the perils of Scylla, a craggy rock in the form of a grim-visaged
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on politics in Britain. That the dilemma had still to be resolved in the aftermath of the revolution is suggested by
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Top, each of Scylla's heads plucks a mariner from the deck; bottom right, Charybdis tries to swallow the whole vessel
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also used the myth in a caricature by F. Graetz, dated November 26, 1884, in which the unmarried president-elect
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rows desperately between snarling monsters captioned "Mother-in-law" and "Office Seekers".
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also referenced it in "Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis," a track from their 2008 album
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as an established equivalent of the allusion to falling from Scylla into Charybdis.
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The myth was later given an allegorical interpretation by the French poet
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The story was often applied to political situations at a later date. In
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Idiom deriving from Greek mythology, "to choose the lesser of two evils"
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Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with explanations
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Index

Scylla and Charybdis
Scylla and Charybdis (disambiguation)

Henry Fuseli
Greek mythology
on the horns of a dilemma

Scylla
Charybdis
sea monsters
Homer
Strait of Messina
Sicily
Calabria
shoal
whirlpool
Odysseus
Erasmus
Adagia
Alexandreis
Walter of Châtillon
Barthélemy Aneau
emblem book
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
the English proverb

James Gillray

James Gillray
William Pitt

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