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HESPERUS (Gr. "Ea-repor, Lat. Vesper)

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

Hist. ii .. 6 [8j .

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