Heracles and the Nemean Lion
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εἰς δὲ τὴν Νεμέαν ἀφικόμενος καὶ τὸν λέοντα μαστεύσας ἐτόξευσε τὸ πρῶτον · ὡς δὲ ἔμαθεν ἄτρωτον ὄντα , ἀνατεινάμενος τὸ ῥόπαλον ἐδίωκε . συμφυγόντος δὲ εἰς ἀμφίστομον σπήλαιον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἑτέραν ἐνῳκοδόμησεν εἴσοδον , διὰ δὲ τῆς ἑτέρας ἐπεισῆλθε τῷ θηρίῳ , καὶ περιθεὶς τὴν χεῖρα τῷ τραχήλῳ κατέσχεν ἄγχων ἕως ἔπνιξε , καὶ θέμενος ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἐκόμιζεν εἰς Κλεωνάς . καταλαβὼν δὲ τὸν Μόλορχον ἐν τῇ τελευταίᾳ τῶν ἡμερῶν ὡς νεκρῷ μέλλοντα τὸ ἱερεῖον ἐναγίζειν , σωτῆρι θύσας Διὶ ἦγεν εἰς Μυκήνας τὸν λέοντα .
Heracles
,
having
come
into
Nemea
and
having
looked
for
the
lion
,
first
shot
it
with
a
bow
.
But
when
he
learned
that
the
lion
was
invulnearable
,
having
raised
the
club
,
he
pursued
it
.
With
it
having
fled
into
the
two-edged
tunnel
,
he
blocked
one
entrance
,
but
through
the
other
,
he
went
after
the
ebast
,
and
having
placed
his
hand
around
his
throat
,
he
held
one
,
pressing
,
until
he
choked
it
,
and
having
placed
it
on
his
shoulders
,
he
was
carrying
it
into
Cleonae
.
But
having
found
Molorchus
on
the
last
of
the
days
,
who
was
thinking
to
sacrifice
an
animal
to
the
dea
,
he
sacrificed
to
savior
Zeus
,
taking
the
lion
to
the
Mycenes
.