NEMEA • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Nemea

... in his hand, and clad in the skin of a lion which he had slain, Eurystheus bade him go and kill a far more terrible lion, of giant brood, and with a skin that could not be pierced, which dwelt in the valley of Nemea. The fight was a terrible one; the lion could not be wounded, and Hercules was forced to grapple with it, and strangle it in his arms. He lost a finger in the struggle, but at last the beast died in his grasp, ...

— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge