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HERCULES STRANGLES THE NEMEAN LION

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LV. HERCULES BECOMES SUBJECT TO EURYSTHEUS^[1]
HE STRANGLES THE NEME'AN LION

Itaque Herculēs Pȳthiae tōtam rem dēmōnstrāvit nec scelus suum abdidit. Ubi iam Herculēs finem fēcit, Pȳthia iussit eum ad urbem Tiryntha^[2] discēdere et ibi rēgī Eurystheō sēsē committere. Quae^[3] ubi audīvit, Herculēs ad illam urbem statim contendit et Eurystheō sē in servitūtem trādidit et dīxit, "Quid prīmum, Ō rēx, mē facere iubēs?"

HERCULES LEONEM SUPERAT

Eurystheus, quī perterrēbātur vī et corpore ingentī Herculis et eum occīdī^[4] studēbat, ita respondit: "Audī, Herculēs! Multa mira^[5] nārrantur dē leōne saevissimō quī hōc tempore in valle Nemaeā omnia vāstat. Iubeō tē, virōrum omnium fortissimum, illō mōnstrō hominēs līberāre." Haec verba Herculī maximē placuērunt. "Properābō," inquit,

↑ Eu-rys'theus (pronounced U-ris'thūs) was king of Ti'ryns, a Grecian city, whose foundation goes back to prehistoric times.
↑ Tiryntha, the acc. case of Tiryns, a Greek noun.
↑ Quae, obj. of audīvit. It is placed first to make a close connection with the preceding sentence. This is called a connecting relative.
↑ occīdī, pres. pass. infin.
↑ mira, marvelous things, the adj. being used as a noun. Cf. omnia, in the next line.

[1] Eu-rys'theus (pronounced U-ris'thūs) was king of Ti'ryns, a Grecian city, whose foundation goes back to prehistoric times.

[2] Tiryntha, the acc. case of Tiryns, a Greek noun.

[3] Quae, obj. of audīvit. It is placed first to make a close connection with the preceding sentence. This is called a connecting relative.

[4] occīdī, pres. pass. infin.

[5] mira, marvelous things, the adj. being used as a noun. Cf. omnia, in the next line.

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