(4 syl.). Three sisters who guarded the golden apples which
Hera (Juno) received as a marriage gift. They were assisted by
the dragon Ladon. Many English poets call the place where these golden
apples grew the “garden of the Hesperides.” Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3) speaks of climbing trees in the Hesperides. (See Comus, lines 402-406.)
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