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Here is my daughter, Hesperus Margulis di Properzio, born July 13th, 1999, at seven pounds, one ounce, and twenty inches. She is happily growing and smiling and babbling.
Hesperus is the classical name for the evening star, which follows the setting sun. It was bright and beautiful each evening while Jennifer was pregnant with our daughter. The ancient Greeks named it the evening or western star, esperoV asthr (hesperos aster), and the Romans latinized it to Hesperus, which is how it is used by Chaucer ("the eve sterre Hesperus"), Milton, Shelley, and stargazers. Hesperus is actually Venus when in her orbit she follows the setting sun; when she precedes the rising sun, she is called Phosphorus. As an adjective, hesperian means western--the ancient Greeks called the inhabitants of Italy 'Hesperians,' or westerners. Hesper and Vesper--whence vespers--are other forms of the name in English.
The Sonne is gone to rest, and Hesperus do
shewe in the West verie bright.
-Cunningham, 1559
The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star of
Hesperus, whose office is to bring twilight upon the earth.
-Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667
Some shed a mild and silver beam Like Hesperus
o'er the western sea.
-Shelley, Queen Mab, 1813
Fairer than Phoebe's sapphire-region'd star Or
Vesper, amorous glow-worm of the sky.
-Keats, Ode to Psyche, 1820
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