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Augeas

[ aw-jee-uhs, aw-jee-uhs ]

noun

  1. king of the Epeans in Elis and one of the Argonauts.


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Example Sentences

But when Augeas heard that this was one of the labours imposed by Eurystheus, he refused the promised guerdon.

Heracles now marched against Augeas to execute his vengeance on him also for his perfidious conduct.

But then the stable was that of Augeas, King of Elis, which was at once the largest and the dirtiest in the whole world.

Augeas had a prodigious number of oxen and goats, and the stable in which they were all kept had never been cleaned.

Augeas, having broken the bargain, was deposed and slain by Hercules.

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