AUERSTADT, a small village in the Prussian province of Saxony, celebrated for the victory more commonly known by the name of the neighbouring city of Jena, which the French gained over the Prussians in October 1806.
AUGEAS (Αυγείας or Αύγεια), a fabulous king of Elis, famed for his stable, which contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleansed for thirty years. Hercules was desired to clear away the filth from this stable in one day; and Augeas promised, if he performed it, to give him a tenth part of the cattle. This task Hercules is said to have executed by turning the course of the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the stable; and when Augeas refused to keep his engagement, Hercules slew him, and gave his kingdom to
his son Phyleus, who had shown an abhorrence of his father's insincerity.