2. The dragon, who was believed to guard the apples of the Hesperides. He is said to have
been able to assume various tones of voice, and to have been the offspring of Typhon and
Echidna; but he is also called a son of Ge, or of Phorcys and Ceto. He had been appointed to
watch in the gardens of the Hesperides by Juno, and never slept; but he was slain by Heracles;
and the image of the fight was placed by Zeus among the stars. (Poet. Astr.
2.6.)