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Λέρνα , ἡ, Lerna, a marsh in Argolis, the mythol. abode of the Hydra, Plu.Cleom.15, Paus.2.4.5; also Λέρνη, Cratin.347, Str.8.6.8, etc.: gen.
A.“Λέρνης” A.Pr.652, etc.: prov., Λέρνη κακῶν an abyss of ills, Hsch.; so Λ. θεατῶν, of the theatre, Cratin.l.c.:—Adj. Λερναῖος , α, ον, Hes.Th.314, etc.; also ος, ον E.Ion191 (lyr.):—Λερναία χολή, of malignant anger, Trag.Adesp.229.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 652
    • Euripides, Ion, 191
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 314
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.4.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.6.8
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