Book 3.420-432
Helenus continues. Instead of sailing through Scylla and Charybdis, Aeneas should sail around Sicily.
Dextrum Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis
420
obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos
421
sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras
422
erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.
423
At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris,
424
ora exsertantem et navis in saxa trahentem.
425
Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo
426
pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix,
427
delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
428
Praestat Trinacrii metas lustrare Pachyni
429
cessantem, longos et circumflectere cursus,
430
quam semel informem vasto vidisse sub antro
431
Scyllam, et caeruleis canibus resonantia saxa.
432