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Definition of Augean

Augean
Augean Au*ge"an, a. 1. (Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day. 2. Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt. Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

Meaning of Augean from wikipedia

- Eurytus. The fifth Labour of Heracles (Hercules in Latin) was to clean the Augean (/ɔːˈdʒiːən/) stables. Eurystheus intended this ****ignment both as humiliating...
- Heracles' nephew and charioteer Iolaus had helped him; and the cleansing of the Augean stables, because Heracles accepted payment for the labour (in other versions...
- symbols of p****ion, the Cerynean deer as cowardice, the cleaning of the Augean stables as purification from extravagance, the driving away of the Stymphalian...
- uninterested until the Home Secretary, Sir George Conway, uses the phrase "The Augean Stables" at which point he agrees to ****ist. Poirot visits Percy Perry,...
- that neither the Hydra counted (because Iolaus helped Heracles) nor the Augean stables (either because he received payment for the job or because the rivers...
- the Amiens negotiations. Now Napoleon saw him as the person to clean the Augean stables of the Dutch client state. Schimmelpenninck saw himself in the same...
- Deianira (18th century copy of a lost original), from I Modi Hercules in the Augean stable (1842, Honoré Daumier) Comic book cover (c. 1958) Hercules, Deianira...
- on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016. Freebury-Jones, Darren. "Augean Stables; Or, the State of Modern Authorship Attribution Studies". www.archivdigital...
- Hercules" Not directly adapted as part of the episode's combined narrative. The Augean Stables (1947) Hercule Poirot and the Greens**** Folly (written 1954, posthumously...
- Hercules "The Lernaean Hydra" "The Arcadian Deer" "The Erymanthian Boar" "The Augean Stables" "The Stymphalean Birds" "The Cretan Bull" "The Horse of Diomedes"...