Brewer's: Tirynthian Swain

Hercules is so called by Spenser, but he is more frequently styled the Tirynthian Hero, because he generally resided at Tiryns, a town of Argolis.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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