Nemean lion
Americannoun
noun
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This statue of Herakles-Vajrapani depicts him as a faithful defender of Buddha, wearing the head of the Nemean lion he famously slew and holding his sacred sword at repose.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Chenel has brought a commanding, full-height Roman statue from the second century A.D., depicting Hercules wearing the skin of the Nemean lion.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
He leads armies and battles all manner of man and beast, including undead soldiers, the hellhound Cerberus, the invulnerable Nemean lion and the multi-headed serpent the Hydra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2014
His Nemean lion skin will be of cloth of gold, and his buskins of the same material.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various
Did you kill the Nemean lion, the Erymanthian boar, the Lernean serpent, and Stymphalian birds?
From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry
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