Hesperia

Also known as: Hesperie · Role: nymph · First appears: Fable 98

Life events

• Hesperia is bitten by a serpent and dies from the wound.(Fable98)
  • “Behold! a snake, lurking in the grass, with its barbed sting, wounds her foot as she flies, and leaves its venom in her body. With her flight is her life cut short.”

Fable 98

• courtship with Æsacus (Æsacus is enamoured of Hesperia.) “The Nymph Hesperia flying from Æsacus, who is enamoured of her, is bitten by a serpent, and instantly dies from the effects of the wound.”
• parent: Cebrenus (Cebrenus is Hesperia's father.) “he espies Hesperie, the daughter of Cebrenus,[61] on the banks of her sire”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.