Thespian Lion

noun

, Classical Mythology.

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

Example Sentences

By the time he was eighteen he was full-grown and he killed, alone by himself, a great lion which lived in the woods of Cithaeron, the Thespian lion.

From Literature

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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