Thereafter Eurystheus place upon a much greater labor to Hercules. With great magnitude was this labor; no one of one hundred men was able to accomplish it. Augeas, who held king at that time in Elide, was where three thousand oxen were living. These enormous sizes were enclosed in a stable. This stable, because for 30 years they had not been cleaned, Hercules was ordered to clean the space within one day. He, even though the time was difficult, began the task. First he made a trench for the river's water from the mountain which he led to the stable's wall. Then destroying a small part of the wall, the water flowed through the stable. This merely completed the labor on the contrary of everyone's opinion by one easy day.