Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AT-LAN'TI-DES
AT-LAN'TI-CA, or AT-LAN'TISAT-LAN'TIS
AT-LAN'TI-DES, n.
A name given to the Pleiades or seven stars, which were feigned to be the daughters of Atlas, a king of Mauritania, or of his brother, Hesperus, who were translated to heaven. – Encyc.
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