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Etymology
From Latin Augeas + -an. Augeas is a figure in Greek mythology whose stables were never cleaned until Hercules was given the task of cleaning them.
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Adjective
Augean (comparative more Augean, superlative most Augean)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Augeas.
- Very filthy.
- Huge, immense, Herculean.
- an Augean task
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Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature by William F. Hansen (2002; Cornell University Press; →ISBN, 9780801436703), page 160
Herakles Cleans the Augean Stables
One of the best-known stories attached to Herakles tells how in one day he removed the dung from King Augeias’s cattle yard, which had not been cleaned in years.
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