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Augeas
[aw-jee-uhs, aw-jee-uhs]
noun
king of the Epeans in Elis and one of the Argonauts.
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Remember how Hercules’ fifth task was to clean the stables of King Augeas in a single day?
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Hercules was next sent to Augeas, King of Elis, who had immense droves of cattle.
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Hercules had come to the cattle-yard of Augeas and had found it clogged with the mire of generations.
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Augeas, having broken the bargain, was deposed and slain by Hercules.
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The combat with Augeas, a son of Helius, seems to have been in great part borrowed from some Epirotan fable respecting Geryon.
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