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[2] latrans: etc. Catullus, like most, if not all, of the Latin poets that mention her, evidently thinks of Scylla with a woman's body ending below in a group of fierce dogs; but Hom. Od. 12.85ff., as might be expected in an earlier conception, describes her as a monster entirely without human form.


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