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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Au·ge·an /ɔˈʤiən/
 (a.)Elis 王 Augeas的,極髒的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Au·ge·an a.
 1. Class. Myth. Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
 2. Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
 Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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