Lexicographical Neighbors of Hesperids
Literary usage of Hesperids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"Thus the two hesperids occupied the inner sides of the two folding- doors, which
seem to have been placed in the middle of the barrier which ..."
2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... nervure iv is absorbed by the radius, and nervure iv2 is left in an original
central position;" in the hesperids, " both iv and iv2 retain an ..."
3. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"Wing-cells (at least, of the hind wings) closed; hind tibiae with one pair of
spurs; a leaf-like appendage to the fore tibiae, as in moths and hesperids. ..."
4. Select Passages from Ancient Writers Illustrative of the History of Greek by Henry Stuart Jones (1895)
"... The hesperids (in the Heraion at Olympia), five in number, ... also Herakles
and the apple-tree of the hesperids, with the serpent coiled about it. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... be regarded as a branch which developed from the primaeval butterfly (above
the hesperids) in one direction, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... and Lycaenidae be regarded as a branch which developed from the primeval
butterfly (above the hesperids) in one direction, ..."
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