place
Sicily
also: Trinacria, Trinacrian
The three-cornered island (Trinacria) off whose strait Scylla and Charybdis lurk.
Reading notes
- The Heroides §12 the Trinacrian water
The sea by Sicily (Trinacria) where Charybdis swallows and disgorges; another wished-for death.
- The Heroides §15 the Sicilian girls
The women of Sicily, Phaon's new 'prey,' to whom Sappho fears he repeats his lies.
- The Heroides §15 mothers of Nisus's city
The matrons and brides of a Sicilian town, whom Sappho warns against Phaon's flatteries.
- The Heroides §15 Sican mountains
The mountains of Sicily (the Sicani), haunt of Venus Erycina.
- The Festivals §4.4 Trinacrian sea
The sea off three-cornered Sicily (Trinacria), with the Aetnean forge of the Cyclopes.
- Metamorphoses §8.203 Sicilian fields
Sicily, whose bulls are smaller than the boar's bulk.
- Metamorphoses §13.418 Sicania
Sicily, the three-cornered island.
- Metamorphoses §15.515 the Sicilian waters
The seas off Sicily, scene of the war against Sextus Pompey.