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See also:HESPERUS (Gr. "See also:Ea-repor, See also:Lat. Vesper) , the evening See also:star, son or See also:brother of See also:Atlas . According to Diodorus Siculus (iii . 6o, iv . 27), he ascended See also:Mount Atlas to observe the'motions of the stars, and was suddenly swept away by a whirlwind . Ever afterwards he was honoured as a See also:god, and the most brilliant star in the heavens was called by his name . Although as a mythological See also:personality he is regarded as distinct from Phosphoros or Heosphoros (See also:Lat . See also:Lucifer), the See also:morning star or bringer of See also:light, the son of Astraeus (or Cephalus) and Eos, the two stars were See also:early identified by the Greeks . Diog . Laert. viii . 1 . 14; See also:Cicero, De nat. deorum, ii . 20; See also:Pliny, Nat . Hist. ii .. 6 [8j . |
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