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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

- 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...
- cleaned, until the time of the great hero Heracles. The derivative adjective augean came to signify a challenging task, typically improving or fixing something...
- 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,...
- quality in the third and fourth Labours. 5. Clean the Augean stables in a single day The Augean stables were the home of 3,000 cattle with poisoned faeces...
- 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...
- 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...
- "The Erymanthian Boar" (short story from The Labours of Hercules) "The Augean Stables" (short story from The Labours of Hercules) "The Stymphalean Birds"...
- . made a profound mark on national life by substantially cleansing the Augean stable of corrupt politics as founding chairman of the Committee on Standards...
- on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016. Freebury-Jones, Darren. "Augean Stables; Or, the State of Modern Authorship Attribution Studies". www.archivdigital...
- the fifth of his labours, rerouted in order to clean the filth from the Augean Stables in a single day, a task which had been presumed to be impossible...