Yalden.
Scyl′la. A beautiful nymph who excited the jealousy of Neptune’s wife, Amphitrite, and was changed by the goddess into a frightful sea-monster, which had six fearfully ugly heads and necks, and who, rising unexpectedly from the deep, used to take off as many as six sailors from a vessel, and carry them to the bottom of the sea. An alternative danger with Charybdis.
“There on the right her dogs foul Scylla hides,
Charybdis roaring on the left presides.”
Virgil.
Scyl′la. A daughter of Nysus, who was changed into a lark for cutting off a charmed lock of her father’s hair. See Nysus.
Sea, see Neptune.
Seasons, see Vertumnus.
Sea-Weed, see Glaucus.
Seges′ta. A rural divinity who protected corn during harvest-time.