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[104] τῷ δ᾽ ὑπό, ‘beneath this’ [figtree]. Charybdis is the personified power of the whirlpool. Later legend represents her as a daughter of Poseidon; perhaps from an extension of the epithet “δῖα”. The eddy in the strait of Messina is known at the present day by the name of Carofalo or Charilla.

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