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American action against them resembles the fight against the Lernaean Hydra, a monstrous serpent with nine heads each head cut off it grew two more.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2014

Or is the tampering with good, honest soccer a modern-day version of the Lernaean Hydra — the serpent from Greek mythology that reproduced two heads for every one that was chopped off.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2011

He destroyed the Stymphalides, the Lernaean hydra, Cacus, Antheus, the Centaurs, and what not; I am no clericus, those that are such tell me so.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

What this dreadful thing is towards which "science" is always playing the part of Herakles towards the Lernaean Hydra, we are left to gather from the course of the narrative.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John