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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 679758" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>The fifth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules" target="_blank">Labour of Heracles</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules" target="_blank">Hercules</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" target="_blank">Latin</a>) was to clean the Augean stables. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurystheus" target="_blank">Eurystheus</a> intended this assignment both as humiliating (rather than impressive, like the previous labours) and as impossible, since the livestock were divinely healthy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality" target="_blank">immortal</a>) and therefore produced an enormous quantity of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung" target="_blank">dung</a>. These stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and 3,000 cattle lived there. However, Heracles succeeded by rerouting the rivers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfeios_River" target="_blank">Alpheus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineios_River_(Peloponnese)" target="_blank">Peneus</a> to wash out the filth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 679758, member: 18958"] The fifth [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules']Labour of Heracles[/URL] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules']Hercules[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin']Latin[/URL]) was to clean the Augean stables. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurystheus']Eurystheus[/URL] intended this assignment both as humiliating (rather than impressive, like the previous labours) and as impossible, since the livestock were divinely healthy ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality']immortal[/URL]) and therefore produced an enormous quantity of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung']dung[/URL]. These stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and 3,000 cattle lived there. However, Heracles succeeded by rerouting the rivers [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfeios_River']Alpheus[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineios_River_(Peloponnese)']Peneus[/URL] to wash out the filth. [/QUOTE]
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