[Loeb Classical Library 46] Plutarch_ Bernadotte Perrin

being pleased with the club, he took it and made it his weapon and continued to use it, just as Heracles did with the lion’s skin. That hero wore the skin to

In Kleusis, moreover, he out-wrestled Cercyon the Arcadian and killed him ; and going on a little farther, at Eriiieiis, he killed Damastes, surnamed Procrustes, by compelling him to make his own body fit his bed, as he had been wont to do with those of strangers