Hercules, once journeying along a narrow roadway, came across astrange-looking animal that reared its head and threatened him. Nothing daunted1, the hero gave him a few lusty blows with his club,and thought to have gone on his way. The monster, however, much to theastonishment of hercules, was now three times as big as it was before,and of a still more threatening aspect. He thereupon redoubled hisblows and laid about him fast and furiously; but the harder andquicker the strokes of the club, the bigger and more frightful2 grewthe monster, and now completely filled up the road. Pallas thenappeared upon the scene. "Stop, hercules," Said she. "Cease yourblows. the monster's name is strife3. let it alone, and it will soonbecome as little as it was at first." 
Strife feeds on conflict. 