ἑσπερίων (hesperion)

ἑσπερίων is an Ancient Greek form of ἑσπέριος, meaning “of the evening”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Lucian of Samosata, Hercules 2: ᾤμην οὖν ἐφʼ ὕβρει τῶν Ἑλληνίων θεῶν τοιαῦτα παρανομεῖν τοὺς Κελτοὺς ἐς τὴν μορφὴν τὴν Ἡρακλέους ἀμυνομένους αὐτὸν τῇ γραφῇ, ὅτι τὴν χώραν ποτὲ αὐτῶν ἐπῆλθεν λείαν ἐλαύνων, ὁπότε τὰς Γηρυόνου ἀγέλας ζητῶν κατέδραμε τὰ πολλὰ τῶν ἑσπερίων γενῶν.

Strabo, Geography 9.3.1: … οιωτοῖς, οἱ δʼ Ἐπικνημίδιοι ἀπὸ ὄρους Κνημῖδος, προσεχεῖς Οἰταίοις τε καὶ Μαλιεῦσιν. ἐν μέσῳ δὲ ἀμφοῖν τῶν τε Ἑσπερίων καὶ τῶν ἑτέρων Παρνασσός, παραμήκης εἰς τὸ προσάρκτιον μέρος ἐκτεινόμενος ἀπὸ τῶν περὶ Δελφοὺς τόπων μέχρι τῆ …

All forms of ἑσπέριος (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.