One small served chapter holds the entire beast. Iobates, handed a letter that asks for Bellerophon's death, sets him on the Chimera "believing that he would be destroyed by the beast" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. III]. The composite is inventoried exactly as Thompson files it: "it had the fore part of a lion, the tail of a dragon", and a third, middle head "of a goat, through which it belched fire" — "a single creature with the power of three beasts", "more than a match for many, let alone one" [ibid.]. Apollodorus cites his authorities mid-story: bred by Amisodares as Homer affirms, "begotten by Typhon on Echidna" as Hesiod relates [ibid.]. The kill is a matter of altitude: mounted on the winged Pegasus, Bellerophon, "soaring on high shot down the Chimera from the height" [ibid.]. Thompson's one other row (Fox's handbook, an Egyptian parallel in Müller) is unwired. What the page teaches about hybrids: a creature assembled from three animals outmatches any number of men on the ground, and loses only to an opponent who declines to fight on any of its three natures' terms.