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Ladon

The hundred-headed dragon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides in Greek mythology. He is variously offspring of Phorcys or Typhon and Echidna.
Father of Daphne, beloved of Apollo, Daphne was changed into a laurel tree by Peneus.
Ladon[?] is a commune in the Loiret département, in France

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