[122] There is a very fine medallion in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, portraying Scylla as half woman, half dolphin, with a trident in her left hand, and seizing a fish with her right. From her middle protrude two half-bodied dogs, who assist the monster in swimming.
[123] Odyssey xii. 105.
[124] At this place there was an altar consecrated to Ulysses. Meninx is now known as the island of Zerbi, on the side of the Bay of Cabus, on the coast of Africa.
[125] The second book of the Iliad.
[126] And from thence I was carried for nine days over the fishy sea by baleful winds. Odyssey ix. 82.
[127] Cape Maleo off the Morea. The distance from this point to Gibraltar is now estimated at 28° 34′. The 22,500 stadia of Polybius would equal 32° 8′ 34″. He was therefore out in his calculation by 3°34′ 34″.
[128] But when the ship left the stream of the river ocean. Odyss. xii. 1.
[129] Vide Odyssey i. 50.
[130] Calypso.
[131] And we dwell at a distance, the farthest in the sea of many waves, nor does any other of mortals mingle with us. Odyssey vi. 204.