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Lernean

  • a word derived from Lerna.
    Lerna
    noun
    a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.

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Did you kill the Nemean lion, the Erymanthian boar, the Lernean serpent, and Stymphalian birds? 

From Dialogues of the Dead by Henry Morley

The old Lernean Hydra had many heads; but they belonged all to one body.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle

That's all very fine, Lance; but you propose a labor beside which Hercules slaying the Lernean Hydra would be insignificant.

From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

This is only pushing time by the shoulders; it is the Lernean hydra, whose heads started up in place of those that were destroyed.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks

Like the Lernean Hydra, or even Hydras in a plural condition.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

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