augean

İngilizce - Türkçe

augean teriminin İngilizce Türkçe sözlükte anlamı

{s} çok pis

{s} pis

{s} leş gibi

İlgili Terimler

cleanse the Augean stables

pisliği temizlemek

İngilizce - İngilizce

augean teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı

Hence, very filthy

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Augeas

{s} (Greek Mythology) filthy, dirty and corrupt (taken from the story of King Augeas' dirty stables which had to be cleaned with a river); resembling the Augean stables that were extremely filthy

Hercules cleansed it in a single day

Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years

extremely dirty and corrupt; "every government ought to attend to cleaning its own Augean stables

extremely dirty and corrupt; "every government ought to attend to cleaning its own Augean stables"

Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt

İlgili Terimler

Augean stables

(Greek Mythology) stables of King Augeas in which he kept 3000 oxen and which were not cleaned for 30 years (Hercules cleaned the stables by diverting a river through them)

Augean stables

according to ancient Greek stories, the very dirty buildings where a king named Augeas kept thousands of cattle. Hercules was ordered to clean them, and he did this by changing the direction of a river to make the water flow through the stables. The expression 'to clean the Augean stables' is sometimes used in literature to describe a very difficult unpleasant job

augean stables

(Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them

cleanse the Augean stables

clean up a large amount of filth or moral corruption, accomplish any large arduous task (as did Hercules when he cleaned the Augean stables)

Heceleme

Au·ge·an

Etimoloji

() A reference to Augeas, a figure in Greek mythology whose stables were never cleaned until Hercules was given the task of cleaning them. Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature by William F. Hansen (2002; ; ISBN 9780801475726, 9780801436703), 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.