hesperidian

adj

1. (not-comparable)Pertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended.

   “He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable.”

   “The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes.”