Hespĕria

, a large island of Africa, once the residence of the Amazons. Diodorus , bk. 3 .――A name common to both Italy and Spain. It is derived from Hesper or Vesper, the setting sun, or the evening, whence the Greeks called Italy Hesperia, because it was situate at the setting sun, or in the west. The same name, for similar reasons, was applied to Spain by the Latins. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , li. 634 , . — Horace , bk. 1 , ode 34, li. 4 ; bk. 1 , ode 27, li. 28 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 7 , li. 15 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 11 , li. 258 .――A daughter of the Cebrenus. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 11 , li. 759 .