Pg. 200 of D’Ooge’s Latin for Beginners
SLAYING THE LERNEAN HYDRA
Then, Hercules was ordered by Eurystheus to kill the Hydra. And so, he hurried with his friend Iolaus to the Lernean march where the Hydra dwelled. However, this monster was a huge snake that had nine heads. Soon, he found the monster and with the greatest danger grabbed its neck with his left hand and held it. Then, he began to cut off the nine heads with his right hand, but he toiled in vain, because every time he had done this, he saw other news heads as many times. When he saw this, he decided to burn the heads with fire. In this way, he put an end to eight heads, but the last head could not be wounded, because it was immortal. Therefore, Hercules placed that head under a huge rock and in this way gained victory.