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《涅墨亚的狮子》(THE NEMEAN LION)选自短篇小说集《赫克勒斯的苦差使》(1947)。赫克勒斯原为希腊神话里的英雄,因遭天后赫拉的妒忌,发疯后杀死了亲生的两个儿子。预言之神阿波罗命他去为堂兄欧律斯透斯服役,以赎杀子之罪,欧律斯透斯又命令他去完成十二件苦差使,杀掉涅墨亚的狮子是十二件中的第一件。那狮子是只神狮,在涅墨亚地方为害,一般武器伤害不了它。赫克勒斯力大无穷,抱住狮子的脖子奋起神威,活活把它掐死。侦探赫克勒·保洛决定退休,要在退休前完成十二个棘手的案件,本案是第一个,案件内容又是关于狮子狗的,故名《涅墨亚的狮子》。
THE NEMEAN LION was chosen from the short story collection “The Havoc Despair” (1947). Hector, formerly a hero in Greek mythology, killed two of his own sons after going mad with the jealousy of Hera. Apollo, God of Prophecy, ordered him to serve the cousin Euphus, with the crime of redemption of the child, and Euros had ordered him to complete twelve bitter envoys and kill the lion of Nemea ten The first of two That lion is only a god lion, a victim of Nemea, but it can not be harmed by normal weapons. Heklerus immeasurable, clinging to the neck of a lion to act as a priest, alive to strangle it. Detective Heckler Paul decided to retire, to complete twelve difficult cases before retirement, the case is the first case content is about the Poodle, hence the name “Lion of Nemea.”