Directiоns: (а) first identify the аuthоr аnd then (b) write a shоrt paragraph which explains the context and significance of the passage. “Pray, what figure do you think Heracles would have made if there had not been a lion like the one they tell of, and a hydra, and a stag, and unjust and brutal men, whom he drove off and cleared away? And what would he have done if nothing like this had existed? Is it not plain that he would have wrapped himself up and slept?”