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Cherynitis. Heracles chased it during a whole year, even into the Hyper- 
borean regions, until he succeeded in laming it by sending an arrow through 
its foot; when he soon caught it and carried it on his shoulder to Eurys- 
theus. 
The fowrth labor was to take alive the Erymanthian Boar, which was 
also sacred to Artemis. This terrible animal lived near mount Erymanthos, 
which it rendered so unsafe by its ravages that no traveller dared approach 
it. On his way thither Heracles first conquered the Centaurs and drove 
them from Arcadia. He then attacked the boar and chased it inte the deep 
snow of the mountain top, where he caught it and carried it home. When 
he brought it to Eurystheus, the latter was so frightened that he hid him- 
self in a cask, and became so afraid of the hero that he transmitted his 
further orders to him through Copreus, forbidding him henceforth to enter 
the city of Mycene. ! , 
The jifth labor was to clean the stables of Augeas, in which the latter had 
kept three thousand head of cattle for a long period. This task he accom- 
plished by leading the rivers Alphezos and Peneios through the stables, 
which were effectually cleaned by the rushing waters. © 
The scath labor was to slay the Stymphaldes, rapacious birds with brazen 
bills and iron wings, whose feathers they could shoot like arrows against 
their pursuers. They lived in the swamp Stymphalis in Arcadia, and 
could not be approached. Heracles frightened them out of their retreat by 
the noise of a huge rattle, and then laid them low with his deadly arrows, 
the birds not being proof against the poison of the Hydra. 
The seventh labor was to catch the Cretan Bull which Poseidon, in his 
wrath against king M/inos, had brought to Crete to devastate the island with 
his fiery breath. Heracles mastered the furious animal, and brought it to 
Eurystheus, who sent it into the plains of Marathon, where it spread death 
and destruction until it was finally caught by Theseus and sacrificed to 
Apollo. 
The ezghth labor was the capture of the horses of Diomedes, king of Thrace. 
These four dreadful horses were fed with the bodies of all the strangers that 
strayed into the territory of Diomedes. Heracles slew their guard and led 
the horses to Eurystheus, in spite of the pursuit of the Thracians. 
The ninth labor was to fetch the shoulder-belt of the Queen of the Ama- 
zons, Hippolyte, which Admeta daughter of Eurystheus coveted. Heracles 
went to Hippolyte and persuaded her to give up her belt, but Hera insti- 
gated the Amazons to attack him. Believing that this attack was owing 
to the treachery of Hippolyte, Heracles slew her and took the shoulder-belt 
by force. 
The tenth labor was to steal the cattle of Geryon, the three-headed giant- 
king of Iberia and the Balearic Islands, which were guarded by the two- 
headed dog Orthros and the giant Huryton. Heracles slew both the latter 
and drove off the cattle, but he was pursued by Geryon, who was assisted by 
Hera, and attacked him furiously. . Heracles, however, succeeded in wound- 
ing Hera in the breast, and whilst she hurried to Zeus to get him to paralyse the 
poison, he slew Geryon and drove the cattle successfully to. Mycenz in spite 
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