Augéas

Augéas, or AUGEIAS, son of Phorbas or of Helios (the sun), king of the Epeans in Elis. He had 3000 head of oxen in his stables, which had not been cleaned out for thirty years. Hercules was commissioned by Eurystheus to cleanse the Augean stables in one day, and was promised as payment a tenth part of the oxen. He accomplished the task by turning the courses of the rivers Peneus and Alpheus through the stables. Augeas now refused to pay the stipulated wages, whereupon Hercules killed him.