(Λάδων; Ládōn).
[1] Dragon
The dragon referred to in Apoll. Rhod. 4,1396, elsewhere referred to only as a ‘serpent’ (óphis, drákōn), who guards the apples of the Hesperides (as also mentioned on Probus in Verg. G. 1,244); he has a hundred heads and many voices. Mythographers have him either be descended directly (as a chthonic beast) from Gaia (as is Typhon) or from related monsters (Phorcys and Ceto, the parents of Echidna and grandparents of the Lern…