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Augean, a.|ɔːˈdʒiːən|
[f. L. Augēas, Gr. αὐγείας: see -an.]
Abominably filthy; i.e. resembling the stable of Augeas, a fabulous king of Elis, which contained 3,000 oxen, and had been uncleansed for 30 years, when Hercules, by turning the river Alpheus through it, purified it in a single day.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. Proem 210 To purge this Augean oxstall from foule sinne. 1775P. Schuyler in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 4, I shall have an Augean stable to clean there. 1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iv. 389 To cleanse the augean bosom of the world by turning through it a river of pure enthusiasm. |