Note 58 — CLEMENCY AND COMMON SENSE.
Reading edition
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 Populaires Latines, p. 82.