ἑσπέρας (hesperas)

ἑσπέρας is an Ancient Greek form of ἑσπέρα, meaning “evening”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 189 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.112.2: ὁ δὲ Δημοσθένης δειπνήσας ἐχώρει καὶ τὸ ἄλλο στράτευμα ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας εὐθύς, αὐτὸς μὲν τὸ ἥμισυ ἔχων ἐπὶ τῆς ἐσβολῆς, τὸ δ’ ἄλλο διὰ τῶν Ἀμφιλοχικῶν ὀρῶν.

Aesop, Fables 225: Κυὼν καὶ ἀλεκτρυὼν, ἑταιρείαν ποιησάμενοι, ὥδευον. Ἑσπέρας δὲ καταλαβούσης, ὁ μὲν ἀλεκτρυὼν ἐπὶ δένδρου ἐκάθευδεν ἀναβὰς, ὁ δὲ κυὼν πρὸς τῇ ῥίζῃ τοῦ δένδρου, κοίλωμα ἔχ …

Appianus of Alexandria, Hannibalic War 7.41: ὁ δʼ ἐπιτηρήσας νύκτα ἀσέληνον, καὶ χωρίον ἐν ᾧ Φούλουιος ἑσπερας τεῖχος μὲν οὐκ ἔφθανεν ἐγεῖραι, τάφρον δʼ ὀρυξάμενος καὶ διαστήματα ἀντὶ πυλῶν καταλιπὼν καὶ τὸ χῶμα προβαλὼν …

All forms of ἑσπέρα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.