Sirens (43) To the Sirens first will you come, who [40] beguile all men whosoever comes to them. Whoever in ignorance draws near to them and hears the Sirens' voice, he nevermore returns.

(76) One seafaring ship alone has passed thereby, [70] that Argo famed of all, on her voyage from Aeetes, and even her the wave would speedily have dashed there against the great crags, had not Hera sent her through, because Jason was dear to her. (95) [85] Therein dwells Scylla, yelping terribly. Her voice is indeed but as the voice of a new-born whelp, but she herself is an evil monster, nor would anyone be glad at sight of her, no, not though it were a god that met her. Verily she has twelve feet, all misshapen, [90] and six necks, exceeding long, and on each one an awful head, and therein three rows of teeth, thick and close, and full of black death. Up to her middle she is hidden in the hollow cave, but she holds her head out beyond the dread chasm, [95] and fishes there, eagerly searching around the rock for dolphins and sea-dogs and whatever greater beast she may catch, such creatures as deep-moaning Amphitrite rears in multitudes past counting. By her no sailors yet may boast that they have fled unscathed in their ship, for with each head she carries off [100] a man, snatching him from the dark-prowed ship.

The Cattle of the Sungod (148) If you leave these unharmed and heed your homeward way, truly you may yet reach Ithaca, though in evil plight. But if you harm them, then I foretell ruin [140] for your ship and for your comrades, and even if you yourself escape, late will you come home and in evil case, after losing all your comrades.’

(471) There I clung steadfastly until she should vomit forth mast and keel again, and to my joy they came at length. At the hour when a man rises from the assembly for his supper, [440] one that decides the many quarrels of young men that seek judgment, even at that hour those spars appeared from out of Charybdis.