Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore.”[264]
And then again, when picturing Satan escaping from pursuit, he shows him
“harder beset,
And more endangered, than when Argo passed
Through Bosphorus betwixt the justling rocks;
Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned
Charybdis, and by the other whirlpool steered.”[265]
But, though frequently employing the story, Milton did not use the proverb, and here transforms at least one of the dangers.