[1403] ἐκ δὲ λιπόντων κ.τ.λ.: 'and as the arrows had left in its blood the venom of the Lernaean hydra, the flies clustering on the festering wounds were being withered (by the poison).' The arrows of Heracles were dipped in the black gall of the hydra, which haunted the marsh of Lerna near Argos; cf. Soph. Tr. 573, μελαγχόλους Ἔβαψεν ἰοὺς θρέμμα Λερναίας ὕδρας.
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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