Hesperia as "western land" is the ancient Greek name of Italy, also used in Latin epic poetry,[4] in gender either a feminine noun or a neuter plural adjective used substantively, spelt the same but with different definite articles, and with the accent shifted from the penult to the antepenult.[5] This becomes LatinHesperia or Hesperius,[6][7] the latter not a distinct nominal form, but simply an adjective used substantively, viz.Vergil'sAeneid VI, 6[8]
Hesperia, the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa, further to the west, used in both Ancient Greek and Byzantine sources[4]
^Greenough, James (1900). Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Vergil. Boston: Ginn & Co. litus in Hesperium; quaerit pars semina flammae [Lit. A shore in Hesperia [Italy], one of them seeks the seeds of flame.]Perseus ProjectA.6.1