saturnalium

Updated: May 12, 2025

The names Hesperia, Hesperides, Hesperus, etc., were used to indicate the west; thus Italy is spoken of by Macrobius: illi nam scilicet Græci a stella Hespero dicunt Venus et Hesperia Italia quæ occasui sit; Saturnalium, lib. i., cap. iii.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera