... mutability is wrought by time), sprang wide asunder; where the doubled strand sole and continuous lay, the sea's vast power burst in between, and bade its waves divide Hesperia's bosom from fair Sicily , while with a straitened firth it interflowed their fields and cities sundered shore from shore. The right side Scylla keeps; the left is given to pitiless Charybdis, who draws down to the wild ...