The thirty days passed away, and as Heracles did not return, Molorchus made preparations for the heroic sacrifice but at that moment Heracles arrived in triumph over the monster, which was slain, and both sacrificed to Zeus Soter. This man was on the point of offering up a sacrifice, but Heracles persuaded him to delay it for thirty days until he should return from his fight with the lion, in order that then they might together offer sacrifices to Zeus Soter but Heracles added, that if he himself should not return, the man should offer a sacrifice to him as a hero.
When Heracles arrived at Cleonae, he was hospitably received by a poor man called Molorchus.
#GREEK WORD FOR HIDE SKIN#
295.) Eurystheus ordered Heracles to bring him the skin of this monster. The mountain valley of Nemea, between Cleonae and Phlius, was inhabited by a lion, the offspring of Typhon (or Orthrus) and Echidna. SELENE (Aelian On Animals 12.7, Hyginus Fabulae 30, Seneca Hercules Furens 83) ORTHROS & KHIMAIRA (Hesiod Theogony 327) Hera afterwards placed the lion amongst the stars as the constellation Leo. He then skinned its hide to make a lion-skin cape, one of his most distinctive attributes.
The hero cornered the lion in its cave and seizing it by the neck wrestled it to death. King Eurystheus commanded Herakles (Heracles) to destroy the beast as the first of his twelve Labours. It plagued the district of Nemea in the Argolis. THE LEON NEMEIOS (Nemean Lion) was a large lion whose hide was impervious to weapons. Nemean Lion Heracles and the Nemean Lion, Athenian red-figure stamnos C5th B.C., University of Pennsylvania Museum
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