Epitome (7.19-7.20)

and from the thighs they had the forms of birds.[*] Sailing by them, Ulysses wished to hear their song, so by Circe's advice he stopped the ears of his comrades with wax, and ordered that he should himself be bound to the mast. And being persuaded by the Sirens to linger, he begged to be released, but they bound him the more, and so he

sailed past. Now it was predicted of the Sirens that they should themselves die when a ship should pass them; so die they did.[*]

And after that he came to two ways. On the one side were the Wandering Rocks,[*] and on the other side two huge cliffs, and in one of them was Scylla,[*] a daughter of Crataeis and Trienus or Phorcus,[*] with the face and breast of a woman, but from the flanks she had six heads and twelve feet of dogs.