Note 344 — CLEMENCY AND COMMON SENSE. A CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE; WITH A MORAL.
Reading edition
Lib. III. 389, 390. There is a contemporary poem in leonine verses on the death of Thomas à Becket, with the same allusion to opposite dangers:—
“Ut post Syrtes mittitur in Charybdim navis, … Flatibus et fluctibus transitis tranquille, Tutum portus impulit in latratus Scyllæ.” Du Méril, Poésies Pop. Lat. du Moyen Age, p. 82.