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Hesperidian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Hesperides + -ian.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended.
   • The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden. 1942, University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic studies:
   • 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. 1952, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America:
   • The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes. 1970, Hans Henrik Brummer, The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere, page 238:
   • 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." 1974, Jac Tharpe, Frost: Centennial Essays - Volume 1, page 219:
   • He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable. 1843, “Punch's Labours of Hercules”, in Punch, volume 5, page 73:
   • 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. 1960, Mary Anne Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, page 233: