Hesperidian

English Etymology From en Hesperides ian. Adjective - Pertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended. en 1843 Punch Punch's Labours of Hercules 5 73 He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable. en 1942 University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic studies The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden. en 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. en 1960 Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy Mary Anne Atwood 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. en 1970 The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere Hans Henrik Brummer 238 The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes. en 1974 Frost: Centennial Essays - Volume 1 Jac Tharpe 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." Anagrams en adeehiinprs heparinised