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What does Hesperides mean?

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Noun
  1. (Greek) a group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; the nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus
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From which omphalos or hub of the universe he will direct his shining team even to the far Hesperides of Richmond or of Windsor.
The peaches of immortality suggest the apples of the Hesperides.
Who has not seen in imagination, when looking into the sunset sky, the gardens of the Hesperides, and the foundation of all those fables?
Juno prized these apples highly, and gave them to the Hesperides, the daughters of Hesperus.
The ancients, in their ignorance, placed the garden of the Hesperides there.
These golden apples, then, came to be known as the apples of Hesperides.

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