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mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality

Heracles is the Greek mythological equivalent of the Roman Hercules.

Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality

We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees; We bowed our necks to service:
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength

Great Hercules is presented
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost

Hercules = Roman mythology: hero famous for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality

I was pretty sure Hercules had fought this thing once, but I couldn't remember how he'd beaten it.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality

Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality

"That's Hercules," I said.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality

But when he was held, rootless, in mid-air, by Hercules, he perished easily.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
It would be a labour of Hercules, far beyond me.
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
Go where the sunset reddens the last grey rock Of Brittany, or the Gates of Hercules.
T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
But the task was more nearly like the labors of Hercules, a succession of varied obstacles.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
" "You only did half the labors of Hercules in the last twenty-four hours," said Taleswapper.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
We'll none of that: that have I told my love, In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
The guard, the father and one or two small children began the herculean job of waking Dad.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
His barbecue obsession began at age sixteen with a trip to Hercules Chicken and Ribs in his hometown of Rochester, New York.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Well-there you are-Hercules the strong.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking them he is stronger than Hercules.
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
It's in the Hercules Cluster.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
I have the wives of Hercules, etc., etc., down pat.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
So rose the Danite strong, Herculean Samson, from the harlot-lap Of Philistean Dalilah, and waked Shorn of his strength.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
Before he mucked out the Augean stables, Hercules probably carved them in half in his mind, too.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side

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