Hesperidian

English

Etymology

Hesperides +‎ -ian

Adjective

Hesperidian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended.
   • 1843, “Punch's Labours of Hercules”, in Punch, volume 5, page 73:

     He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable.

   • 1942, University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic studies:

     The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden.

   • 1952, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America:

     The body of the poem is the "Song of the Three Sisters," the Hesperidian maidens, which is introduced by a blank verse prologue that fuses historical allusion with myth and somewhat casually places the verses that follow in the familiar framework of vision poetry.

   • 1960, Mary Anne Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, page 233:

     It is known concerning Hercules, that he performed his last labour in the Hesperidian region, and Olympiodorus, in his Commentary on the Gorgias of Plato, informs us what we are to understand by this.

   • 1970, Hans Henrik Brummer, The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere, page 238:

     The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes.

   • 1974, Jac Tharpe, Frost: Centennial Essays - Volume 1, page 219:

     Further substantiation for this correlation is to be found in Ridgely Torrence's Hesperidian poetry, to which Frost referred in an epigraph to "A Passing Glimpse."

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