A.water-serpent, but esp. of the Lernaean hydra, Hes.Th.313, S.Tr.574,836 (lyr.), 1094; Ὕδραν τέμνειν, prov. of labour in vain, because two heads sprang up for every one which was cut off, Pl.R.426e: pl., but still with reference to the Lernaean hydra, E.Heracl.950, Ph.[1136]: prov., “ὕδρης ποικιλώτερος” Herod.3.89 (“ἐπὶ τῶν δολερῶν” Diogenian.7.69).
ὕδρα , Ion. ὕδρη , ἡ, (cf. ὕδωρ)
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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