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Hesperides
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Hes-per′i-des
,Noun.
pl.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
1.
(Class. Myth.)
The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also
Atlantides
. 2.
The garden producing the golden apples.
It not love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the
Still climbing trees in the
Hesperides
? Shakespeare
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Hesperides
Hesperides
See also: Hespérides
English
Proper noun
Hesperides
- (Greek mythology) a group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; the nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus
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Translations
a group of nymphs
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