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Meaning Of Hesperides
n. pl.
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.