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Lion slain by Hercules
Answer for the clue "Lion slain by Hercules ", 6 letters:
nemean
Alternative clues for the word nemean
- Like a mythical lion
- From an ancient Greek city
- Like the lion slain by Hercules
- ___ lion (mythical hunter)
- Like the lion killed by Hercules
- ___ lion, beast slain by Hercules in his first labor
- ___ Lion (beast in one of Hercules' labors)
- Like the beast in Hercules' first labor
- Like the lion of a Herculean task
- Pindar's "_____ Odes"
Usage examples of nemean.
From these customs were derived the Isthmian, Nemean, Pythic, and Olympic games, together with those at Delos.
After bivouacking with the army in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, in which the poet Hesiod is said to have been killed by the people of the country, according to an oracle which had foretold that he should die in Nemea, Demosthenes set out at daybreak to invade Aetolia.
His thoughts kept returning to the fact that Lorenzo had often spoken of Hercules, suggesting that the Greek legend did not mean that his twelve labors were to be taken literally: the capture of the Erymanthian boar, the defeating of the Nemean lion, the cleaning of the Augean stables by running a river through.