There he wished to die, but he could not, for he was immortal. But the hurt proving incurable, Chiron retired to the cave and As the centaurs cowered about Chiron, Hercules shot anĪrrow at them, which, passing through the arm of Elatus, stuck in the knee of Chiron.ĭistressed at this, Hercules ran up to him, drew out the shaft, and applied a medicine Thence they took refuge with Chiron, who, driven by the Lapiths from Mount Repelled by Hercules with a shower of brands, and the rest of them he shot and pursued asįar as Malea. The first who dared to enter, Anchius and Agrius, were It, and not long afterwards, scenting the smell, the centaurs arrived at the cave of 12 But Hercules, bidding him be of good courage, opened When Hercules called for wine, he said he feared to open the jar which belonged to 11 He set roast meat before Hercules, while he himself ate his meat Through Pholoe he was entertained by the centaur Pholus, a son of Silenus by a Melian nymph. Of the goddess and carried the beast alive to Mycenae.Īs a fourth labour he ordered him to bring the Erymanthian boar alive 10 now that animal ravaged Psophis, sallying from a mountain which they call Erymanthus. Howbeit, by pleading necessity and laying the blame on Eurystheus, he appeased the anger But Artemis with Apollo met him,Īnd would have wrested the hind from him, and rebuked him for attempting to kill her Was about to cross the stream, and catching it put it on his shoulders and hastened To the river Ladon, Hercules shot it just as it With the chase, the beast took refuge on the mountain called Artemisius, and thence passed Wishing neither to kill nor wound it, Hercules hunted it a whole year. 8 Now the hind was at Oenoe it had golden horns and was sacred to Artemis so Got the better of the hydra by himself, but with the help of Iolaus.Īs a third labour he ordered him to bring the Cerynitian hind alive to Mycenae. However,Įurystheus said that this labour should not be reckoned among the ten because he had not The road that leads through Lerna to Elaeus.īut the body of the hydra he slit up and dipped his arrows in the gall. Heads, he chopped off the immortal head, and buried it, and put a heavy rock on it, beside Having thus got the better of the sprouting The brands, prevented them from sprouting. Setting fire to a piece of the neighboring wood and burning the roots of the heads with 7 So he killed it, and in his turn called for help on Iolaus who, by A huge crab also came to the help of the hydra byīiting his foot. Nor could he effect anything by smashing its heads with his club, for as fast as one But the hydra wound itself about one of his feet and clung to Pelting it with fiery shafts he forced it to come out, and in the act of doing so he He discovered the hydra on a hill beside the springs of the Amymone, where was its den. He came to Lerna, and having halted his horses, Heads, eight mortal, but the middle one immortal. 6 That creature, bred in the swamp of Lerna, used to go forth into the plain and ravage both the cattle and the country. This Copreus had killed Iphitus and fled to Mycenae, where he was purified by Eurystheus and tookĪs a second labour he ordered him to kill the Lernaean hydra. Himself to hide in under the earth, 4 and that he sent his commands for the labours through a herald, They say, too, that in his fear he had a bronze jar made for Amazed at his manhood, Eurystheusįorbade him thenceforth to enter the city, but ordered him to exhibit the fruits of his Victim to him as to a dead man, he sacrificed to Saviour Zeus and brought the lion to And finding Molorchus on the last of the thirty days about to sacrifice the Neck held it tight till he had choked it so laying it on his shoulders he carried it toĬleonae. One entrance and came in upon the beast through the other, and putting his arm round its And when the lion took refuge in a cave with two mouths, Hercules built up the Him, but when he perceived that the beast was invulnerable, he heaved up his club and madeĪfter him. 3 And having come to Nemea and tracked the lion, he first shot an arrow at Zeus, but if he were dead, to sacrifice to him as to a hero. Thirty days, and then, if he had returned safe from the hunt, to sacrifice to Saviour The lion he came to Cleonae and lodged at the house of a day-laborer, Molorchus 2Īnd when his host would have offered a victim in sacrifice, Hercules told him to wait for The Nemean lion 1 now that was an invulnerable beast begotten by Typhon. First, Eurystheus ordered him to bring the skin of When Hercules heard that, he went to TirynsĪnd did as he was bid by Eurystheus.
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