Mythological References Part 2
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- A great many troubles
- A Lerna of ills
- Evils that continue to grow while one is in the act of supressing them
- Hydra-headed evils
- Phrase meaning "it is impossible to steal the power and ability of a great man."
- One cannot snatch the club from Hercules
- A harmful gift
- The shirt of Nessus
- A choice between two difficulties
- Between Skylla and Charybidis
- One who passes his life in idleness and dreamy ease
- A lotos-eater
- A beautiful woman who lures one to destruction
- A siren
- A beautiful woman whose charms are too strong to be resisted
- A Circe
- Acquiring fame through some worthy achievement
- Winning laurels
- To influence some powerful agency in one's favor
- To work the oracles
- Words which are mysterious and hard to interpret
- Delphic words
- A highly gifted person forced by necessity to undertake menial work
- Apollo serving Admetus
- A song of thanksgiving for deliverance from danger
- A pagean
- An exceedingly handsome man
- An Apollo, or an Adonis
- A man without judgement
- "Midas-eared"
- The power to make money
- The Midas-touch
- A flood of gold
- A Pactolian flood
- A task that is never completed
- A task of Sisyphus
- Seeing one's desires near fulfillment and yet never really attaining them
- The punishment of Tantalus
- A system which insists that everyone shall conform to the same scheme
- A Procrustean System