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Thespian Lion

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noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.

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Samson rent a young lion on the road to Timnath, whither he was going to take his Philistine wife; Herakles, while still a youthful herdsman, slew the Thespian lion and afterward strangled the Nemean lion with his hands.

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