sequence of the labours, though the orders of the third and fourth, fifth and sixth, and eleventh and twelfth labours are swapped.

First: Nemean lion

Heracles wandered in the area until he came to the town of Cleonae. There he met a boy who said that if Heracles slew the Nemean lion, (which had been raised by Hera and set upon the hills of Nemea), and returned within 30 days, the town would sacrifice a lion to Zeus,

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