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Impudentia.
Effrontery
Pube tenus mulier, succincta latrantibus infra
Monstrorum catulis, Scylla biformis erat.[1]
Monstra putantur avarities, audacia, raptus.
At Scylla est nullus cui sit in ore pudor.
As far as the hips a woman, with barking monster-pups below, Scylla was two-shaped. The monsters are interpreted as avarice, audacity, plunder. But anyone whose face knows no shame is a Scylla.
1. For Scylla’s half-transformation into barking dogs, see Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.51ff.
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