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Achelous
/ ˌæɪˈəʊə /
noun
classical myth a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
Example Sentences
Other times it felt like an anvil, as if the river god Achelous was sending out bad thoughts, trying to punish her for taking his horn.
But the Latins said the Cornucopia was the horn of Achelous which Hercules broke off when he conquered that river-god, who had taken the form of a bull to fight him.
Like everyone else by this time, Achelous had no desire to fight him and he tried to reason with him.
Achelous took the form of a bull and attacked him fiercely, but Hercules was used to subduing bulls.
He fought the river-god Achelous because Achelous was in love with the girl Hercules now wanted to marry.
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