like treacherous Ate. Such boldness has she, a woman to slay a man. What odious monster shall I fitly call her? An AmphisbaenaAmphisbaena, a fabulous snake moving both ways, backwards and forwards. Tennyson’s an amphisbaena, each end a sting, reproduces Pliny’s description.? Or a Scylla, tenanting the rocks, a pest to mariners,