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See also:HYDRA (watersnake) , in See also:Greek See also:legend, the offspring of See also:Typhon and See also:Echidna, a gigantic See also:monster with nine heads (the number is variously given), the centre one being immortal. Its haunt was a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill beneath a See also:plane See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree near the See also:river See also:Amymone, in the I marshes of Lerna by See also:Argos. The destruction of this Lernaean
hydra was one of the twelve " labours " of Heracles, which he accomplished with the assistance of lolaus. Finding that as soon as one See also:head was cut off two See also:grew up in its See also:place, they burnt out the roots with firebrands, and at last severed the immortal head from the See also:body, and buried it under a mighty See also:block of See also:rock. The arrows dipped by Heracles in the poisonous See also:blood or See also:gall of the monster ever afterwards inflicted fatal wounds. The generally accepted See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of the legend is that " the hydra denotes the See also:damp, swampy ground of Lerna with its numerous springs (KeePaXal, heads); its See also:poison the miasmic vapours rising from the stagnant See also:water; its See also:death at the hands of Heracles the introduction of the culture and consequent See also:purification of the See also:soil " (See also:Preller). A euhemeristic explanation is given by See also:Palaephatus (39). An See also:ancient See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king named Lernus occupied a small citadel named Hydra, which was defended by So bowmen. Heracles besieged the citadel and hurled firebrands at the See also:garrison. As often as one of the defenders See also:fell, two others at once stepped into his place. The citadel was finally taken with the assistance of the See also:army of Iolaus and the garrison slain.
See See also:Hesiod, Theog., 313; See also:Euripides, See also:Hercules furens, 419; See also:Pausanias ii. 37; See also:Apollodorus ii. 5, 2; Diod. Sic. iv. 11; See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Hythologie. In the See also:article GREEK See also:ART, fig. 20 represents the slaying of the Lernaean hydra by Heracles.
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