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  1. Channel in the central Mediterranean
  2. separating Sicily from mainland Italy; in
  3. Greek legend a monster (Charybdis), who
  4. devoured ships, lived in the whirlpool on the
  5. Sicilian side, and another (Scylla), who
  6. devoured sailors, in the rock on the Italian
  7. side. The classical hero Odysseus passed
  8. safely between them.
  9.