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it's a task that seems impossible but can be done. or heroic efforts taken to overcome a task sometimes regarding the task of concentration from Hercules fifth labour when he had to clean the Augean stables in one day

Cleaning the Augean Stables was one of the labours of Heracles (or Hercules). The stables were massive and had not been cleaned for many years. As such they were filthy, and it was said that to stand in the stables for more than a minute was to risk infection.

One of Heracles's Twelve Labours was to clean out the Augean Stables. They had not benn cleaned out in years, and weas piled high with mirt and muck. Hercales simply diverted the Alpheus and Penius rivers and the stables were cleaned practically to destruction.