ἑσπέρα,
Ionic dialect ἑσπ-έρη, ἡ, properly feminine of ἕσπερος:
__I (i.e. ὥρα), evening, ἑσπέρας at eve, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.40, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 322, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59e, +others; τῆς ἑσπέρας 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 125.7; also ἑσπέρην 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.121 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας εὐθύς just at nightfall, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.112; ἄκρᾳ σὺν ἑσπέρᾳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς ἑσπέραν towards evening, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1085, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.30, NT.Luke.24.29; εἰς ἑσπέραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 223d ] NT+5th c.BC+]; ἐπειδὴ ἑσπέρα ἦν[[ [prev. work] 220c; ἐπεὶ πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.3.22; ἑσπέρας γιγνομένης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ ἑσπέραν βαθεῖαν late in the evening, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.179e: _metaphorically_, ὁ βίος ἑσπέραν ἄγει] Refs 1st c.AD+] life is wearing to its eve, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 228; ἑ. βίον Anonymus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1457b24: _plural_, διχομήνιδες ἑσπέραι] Refs 4th c.BC+] evenings when the moon is full, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).47. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 night, μίαν ἑ. αὐλισάμενος [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.2.1. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II (i.e. χώρα) the west, πρὸς ἑσπέραν φέρει [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1260; ἡ πρὸς ἑσπέρην [χώρη] 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82, compare 3.115; τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέρης [prev. author] 8.130, 132, 4.38; τὰ πρὸς ἑσπέραν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.2; τὴν ἀνατολὴν ποιεῖσθαι ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 345a3, compare 344b34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ πνεύματα πνεῖ τῆς δείλης ἀπὸ τῆς ἑ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 47 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: metaphorically in political sense, τὰ προφαινόμενα ἀπὸ τῆς ἑ. νέφη [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.104.9, compare 9.37.10: Ἑ., ἡ, ] Refs 2nd c.BC+] the Western Empire, [[ 6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus 4.29, 5.16. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]