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"Incidit in Scyllam"

By FORTUNATUS DWARRIS.

"Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim; Sie morbum fugiens, incidit in medicos." Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first? I think it was Lord Grenville who quoted them as found somewhere together.

Topics: Classical Literature, Quotations