Augean stable

A form of Augean stables — The stables where King Augeas kept his vast herd.

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Meanings

noun
  1. raresingularsingular of Augean stables

    Yet I should prefer the Peneus, a shallow stream in a wide and deep bed, which runs through Elis, and falls into the sea below Cyllene. It had been joined with the Alpheus to cleanse the Augean stable.

    1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC
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