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Definition: Nemean Lion |
Nemean LionNoun1. (Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Nemean Lion (The). The first of the labours of Hereules was to kill the Nemean lion (of Argolis), which kept the people in constant alarm. Its skin was so tough that his club made no impression on the beast, so Hercules caught it in his arms and squeezed it to death. He ever after wore the skin as a mantle. "Ere Nemea's boast resigned his shaggy spoils." $$$. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The first of Heracles' twelve labors was to slay the Nemean Lion and bring back its skin.
Heracles defeated the beast by throttling it with his bare hands because its skin was so thick that using his bow-and-arrow, a club made from an olive tree he pulled out of the ground himself and a bronze sword were all ineffective. Heracles spent hours trying to skin the lion unsuccessfully, and gradually growing angrier as it appeared he would be unable to complete his first task. Eventually Athene, in the guise of an old crone, helped Heracles to realise that the best tool to cut the hide were the creature's own claws and so with a little divine intervention he completed his first task.
From that moment forth he wore the impenetrable hide as armour, and Eurystheus was so frightened by Heracles' fearsome guise that he hid in a bronze jar and from that moment forth all labours were communicated to Heracles through a herald.
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| Language | Translations for "nemean lion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | emeannay ionlay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-n-o" | |
-2 letters: limonene. | |
-3 letters: anemone, enamine, leonine, lineman, linemen, melanin, nominal, nominee. | |
-4 letters: amnion, anomie, enamel, eolian, eonian, lomein, maline, mealie, meanie, menial, moline, nannie, nomina, nonman, nonmen, oilman, oilmen, oleine, online. | |
-5 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, amine, amino, amnio, amole, anele, anile, anime, anion, anole, elain, elemi, eloin, email, enema, inane, leman, lemon, leone, liane, liman, limen, linen, maile, melon, minae, monie, ninon, nomen, olein. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-n-o" | |
+3 letters: environmental, nonmyelinated, unmentionable. | |
+4 letters: unmentionables. | |
+5 letters: environmentally, nonexperimental, nonsedimentable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 6D 65 61 6E 4C 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e m e a n   L i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 006D 0065 0061 006E 004C 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487179716780246758180 |
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