Show A confusion of lamca although scotia is now known to mean scotland it once was tho name of ireland two centuries before the birth of christ ireland was known to the greeks as juvencia Ju venca called it asi bernia as did also ptolemy in his map of that island it is said tho phoeni ceans first gave ireland the name of hibernia meaning thereby utmost or last habitation for beyond that land westward the phoenicians Phoenicia ns never extended their voyages toward the decline of the roman empire the country began to bo called scotia a name retained by the monastic writers until the eleventh century when the name scotia having passed to modern scotland the ancient ame of hibernia began to be again used san francisco chronicle |