Note 57:2 — INTRODUCTION.[vii:1]
Andrew P. (Andrew Preston) Peabody translation
Augeas, having made a contract with Hercules by which a tenth part of his cattle were to be the price for cleansing his stables in a day, refused to pay the price; and Hercules waged with him a war in which he and all his sons but Phyleus perished. Hercules placed Phyleus on his father’s throne, as king of the Epeians in Elis. The father’s story is, of course, mythical, and the son hardly falls within the domain of authentic history.