Then Sinope, a many-headed hydra,

An old and wrinkled hag—Gnathine, too,

Her neighbour—Oh! they are a precious pair.

Nanno's a barking Scylla, nothing less—

Having already privately dispatch'd

Two of her lovers, she would lure a third

To sure destruction, but the youth escaped,

Thanks to his pliant oars, and better fortune.

Phryne, like foul Charybdis, swallows up

At once the pilot and the bark. Theano,