The Greek name for Ireland was Ierne. The Romans of Caesar's time often referred to it as Scoti, and there is some debate as to whether the term Hibernia was applied to Iceland or Ireland by the Romans. At any rate, the Latin word for winter is certainly hiberna. It is also known that Strabo and Julius Caesar and other writers, who place Ierne and Hibernia geographically north of Britain, considered it a cold country, and that the historian Claudian referred to it as icy.