I. (sc. ὥρα), evening, “ἑσπέρας” at eve, Pi.P.4.40, Eup.322, Pl.Phd.59e, al. ; “τῆς ἑσπέρας” Alex.125.7 ; also “ἑσπέρην” Hp.Mul.2.121 ; ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας εὐθύς just at nightfall, Th.3.112 ; “ἄκρᾳ σὺν ἑσπέρᾳ” Pi.P.11.10 ; πρὸς ἑσπέραν towards evening, Ar.V.1085, X.HG1.1.30, Ev.Luc.24.29 ; “εἰς ἑσπέραν” Pl.Smp.223d ; ἐπειδὴ ἑσπέρα ἦν ib.220c ; “ἐπεὶ πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἦν” X.HG4.3.22 ; “ἑσπέρας γιγνομένης” Pl.R.621a ; περὶ ἑσπέραν βαθεῖαν late in the evening, Plu.2.179e : metaph., ὁ βίος ἑσπέραν ἄγει life is wearing to its eve, Alex.228; “ἑ. βίον” Anon. ap. Arist.Po.1457b24: pl., διχομήνιδες ἑσπέραι evenings when the moon is full, Pi.I.8(7).47.
2. night, “μίαν ἑ. αὐλισάμενος” J.BJ5.2.1.
II. (sc. χώρα) the west, “πρὸς ἑσπέραν φέρει” E.Or.1260 ; “ἡ πρὸς ἑσπέρην [χώρη]” Hdt.1.82, cf. 3.115 ; “τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέρης” Id.8.130, 132, 4.38 ; “τὰ πρὸς ἑσπέραν” Th.6.2 ; “τὴν ἀνατολὴν ποιεῖσθαι ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας” Arist.Mete.345a3, cf. 344b34 ; τὰ “πνεύματα πνεῖ τῆς δείλης ἀπὸ τῆς ἑ.” Thphr.Vent.47 : metaph. in political sense, “τὰ προφαινόμενα ἀπὸ τῆς ἑ. νέφη” Plb.5.104.9, cf. 9.37.10: Ἑ., ἡ, the Western Empire, Agath.4.29,5.16.