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Auge`as

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A legendary king of Elis, in Greece, and one of the Argonauts; had a stable with 3000 oxen, that had not been cleaned out for 30 years, but was cleansed by Hercules turning the rivers Peneus and Alpheus through it; the act a symbol of the worthless lumber a reformer must sweep away before his work can begin, the work of reformation proper.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Auge`as'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/augeas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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