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Often appears with: voyages and seafaring · thrinacia and helios’s cattle · thetis and nereids guide argo · scylla and charybdis · fate, destiny, and necessity
Usually: narrative (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the test or trial (1) · wonder (1)
Argo is guided through the perils of Scylla, Charybdis, and the Wandering rocks; Thetis and Nereids lift the ship as it is hurled through the air, while pious heroic travel continues past Thrinacia to Helios’s cattle, then into night sailing.
dwell on the Lilybean height. And the heroes, seized by anguish, left the Sirens, but other perils still worse, destructive to ships, awaited them in the meeting-place of the seas. For on one side appeared the smooth rock of Scylla; on the other Charybdis ceaselessly spouted and roared; in another part the Wandering rocks were booming beneath the mighty surge, where before the burning flame spurted forth from the to…