1. nemean - Noun
2. nemean - Adjective
Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn the sixth Nemean Ode, Pindar states: "There is one/race of men, one race of gods; both have breath/of life from a single mother. Source: Internet
More recent mythology from the Greeks associates this constellation with the Twelve Labors of Hercules, whose first labor was to kill the Nemean Lion. Source: Internet
Theseus overpowered the Minotaur with his strength and stabbed the beast in the throat with his sword (according to one scholium on Pindar's Fifth Nemean Ode, Theseus strangled it). Source: Internet
He was forced to do women's work and to wear women's clothes, while she wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried his olive-wood club. Source: Internet
In The Nemean Lion, Poirot sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, allowing her to evade prosecution by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who, Poirot discovered, had plans to commit murder. Source: Internet
She instructed Heracles to skin the Nemean Lion by using its own claws to cut through its thick hide. Source: Internet