Definitions for Lerna

Lerna Ler·na

Spelling: [lur-nuh]
IPA: /ˈlɜr nə/

Lerna is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in Lerna (aelnr).

Definitions for Lerna

noun

  1. a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.

Examples for Lerna

We learn from Palphatus, that according to some of the antient mythologists, Cadmus was the person, who slew the serpent at Lerna.

This monster dwelt in the swamp of Lerna, but came occasionally over the country, destroying herds and laying waste the fields.

Its haunt was a hill beneath a plane tree near the river Amymone, in the marshes of Lerna by Argos.

Second, To destroy the Hydra which infested the marshes of Lerna.

The expiatory purifications performed at this place by persons guilty of crimes gave rise to the proverb, “A Lerna of evils.”

He indeed is called by birth a Mycenan, and he dwells at the streams of Lerna, the king Hippomedon.

Hercules's second labor was to kill the Hydra, a nine-headed monster that infested the marshes of Lerna.

As the Achæans were willing to accept these terms they invited Kleomenes to a conference at Lerna.

For foiled ambition is the hydra-headed monster of the Lerna marsh.

Pacheco greatly distinguished himself, with Hernando de Lerma or Lerna, who was a captain.

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