Hes'perus, the Greek name (Lat. Vesper) for Venus as the evening star (see PLANET). Hence the Alexandrian grammarians called Italy, and sometimes all western Europe, Hesperia, 'the western land.'
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 698
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