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An Account of the

Scilly Iſlands were antiently called ^[2] Sillinæ Inſulæ; for Severus Sulpitius, relating that Inſtantius, a factious and ſeditious Heretick, was banished by Maximus, the Roman Emperor, expreſſes him-

↑ Annotations on Virgil.
↑ Camden's Britannia. Virg. Æneid. Lib. 3. v. 420. Dextrum Scylla.] ^[1] Scylla, ad latus Italiæ Cænym promontorium: Scopulus eſt tumultuoſo fluctuum allapſu ſemper fremens, nunc Scylio: (Greek characters) vexo. Charybdis, ad latus Siciliæ, prope Meſſanam Urbem: Mare eſt vorticoſum, aquas ſorbens & cum impetu deinde ructans, nunc Caco faro: (Greek characters) ſorben. Charybdim aiunt meretricem fuiſſe voraciſſimam: quæ cum Herculi boves eripuiſſet, a Jove Fulmine icta, & in fretum præceps acta, in voraginem ibi converſa eſt. Scyllam Phorſi filiam, à Circe commutatam dicunt in monſtrum, cujus ſuprema pars fæmineam ſpeciem retinuerit, infima in Canes abierit: quorum latratu fluctuum ſtrepitum exprimere voluerunt; ipſumque monſtrum in ſcopulo latere, eoque naves attrahere, ac lacerare fabulati ſunt. Atque hæc, ex mente Poetarum dicta. 685. Leti diſcrimine parvo.] Non hoc dicit, utrumque monſtrum Scyllam & Charybdim parum inter ſe diſtare: ſciebat enim, id quod jam ſcimus, diſtantia ac diſcrimen intereſſe, ut minimum duo decies mille paſſuum. Sed hoc dicit: in his freti anguſtiis, totaque adeo via, quicumque carſum tenent, parum a morte diſlare, propter frequentes vortices.

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[1] Annotations on Virgil.

[2] Camden's Britannia. Virg. Æneid. Lib. 3. v. 420. Dextrum Scylla.] ^[1] Scylla, ad latus Italiæ Cænym promontorium: Scopulus eſt tumultuoſo fluctuum allapſu ſemper fremens, nunc Scylio: (Greek characters) vexo. Charybdis, ad latus Siciliæ, prope Meſſanam Urbem: Mare eſt vorticoſum, aquas ſorbens & cum impetu deinde ructans, nunc Caco faro: (Greek characters) ſorben. Charybdim aiunt meretricem fuiſſe voraciſſimam: quæ cum Herculi boves eripuiſſet, a Jove Fulmine icta, & in fretum præceps acta, in voraginem ibi converſa eſt. Scyllam Phorſi filiam, à Circe commutatam dicunt in monſtrum, cujus ſuprema pars fæmineam ſpeciem retinuerit, infima in Canes abierit: quorum latratu fluctuum ſtrepitum exprimere voluerunt; ipſumque monſtrum in ſcopulo latere, eoque naves attrahere, ac lacerare fabulati ſunt. Atque hæc, ex mente Poetarum dicta. 685. Leti diſcrimine parvo.] Non hoc dicit, utrumque monſtrum Scyllam & Charybdim parum inter ſe diſtare: ſciebat enim, id quod jam ſcimus, diſtantia ac diſcrimen intereſſe, ut minimum duo decies mille paſſuum. Sed hoc dicit: in his freti anguſtiis, totaque adeo via, quicumque carſum tenent, parum a morte diſlare, propter frequentes vortices.

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