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n. (context Greek mythology English) The filthy stables of Augeas, the cleaning of which was the fifth of the seven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours%20of%20Hercules.
Usage examples of "augean stables".
Iolaus here helped him to burn off the heads of the Lernaean Hydra, And he used the rivers Alpheus and Peneius to clean out the Augean Stables.
Like so many of New York's young grandees, Jack Astor had been inspired to clean up the Augean stables if not of the republic, an impossible undertaking, of the city.
Hercules, cleaning the Augean stables, had an easy task in comparison.
Controlling the raw sewage produced by such a population was enough to make Hercules' legendary cleaning of the Augean Stables look like an afternoon's easy chore.
His thoughts kept returning to the fact that Lorenzo had often spoken of Hercules, suggesting that the Greek legend did not mean that his twelve labors were to be taken literally: the capture of the Erymanthian boar, the defeating of the Nemean lion, the cleaning of the Augean stables by running a river through.
All the proper things were there, but organizing them made Hercules' task in the Augean stables seem trivial in comparison.
Fighting a losing battle and working off your penance cleaning Aiken's Augean stables seem to have agreed with you.