Augean stables

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Augean stables

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(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day

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Augean stables - (Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them

plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

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Augean Stables [ɔːˈdʒiːənˈsteɪblz] NPL → establos mpl de Augias

Augean stables

pl → Augiasstall m; to clean out the Augean stables (Myth, fig) → den Augiasstall ausmisten

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How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and woodlot

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