单词 | hesperus |
释义 | Hesperusn. The evening star. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > inferior planet > [noun] > Venus > as evening star evenstarOE Hesperusc1374 eve stara1387 vesper1390 evening star1535 night star1595 Vesperugo1600 shepherd's lamp1827 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. metr. v. 22 Þe eue sterre hesperus. ?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1173 in Poems (1981) 48 Quhen Hesperus to schaw his face began. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 51 The Sonne is gone to rest, and Hesperus do shewe in the West verie bright. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 49 The Sun was sunk, and after him the Starr Of Hesperus, whose Office is to bring Twilight upon the Earth. View more context for this quotation 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab i. 14 Some shed a mild and silver beam Like Hesperus o'er the western sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.c1374 |
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