Ἡρακλῆς

Alcmene's son. They give an account of him as a philosopher and they depict him wearing the skin of a lion, carrying a cudgel, and possessing three apples;¹ which are the three apples the mythology says he took when he conquered the multifaceted argument of his base appetite with his cudgel of philosophy, having his spirit as a covering, like the skin of the lion. And thus having killed the dragon of his appetite with his club, he took the three apples, which are the three virtues: not to be angry, not to love money, not to be wanton. For through the cudgel of his enduring soul and the skin of most courageous and sound-minded argument, he conquered the offspring of his base appetite and was a philosopher until death.