Μεσοποταμία
Μεγάλη τυραννὶς ἀνδρὶ πλουσία (τέκνα καὶ) γυνή → Duxisse ditem, servitus magna est viro → Gar sehr tyrannisiert die reiche Frau den Mann
French (Bailly abrégé)
v. μεσοποτάμιος.
English (Strong)
from μέσος and ποταμός; Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris; compare אֲרַם נַהֲרַ֫יִם), a region of Asia: Mesopotamia.
English (Thayer)
Μεσοποταμίας, ἡ (feminine of μεσοποτάμιος, Μεσοποταμία, μεσοποταμιον, namely, χώρα; from μέσος and ποταμός), Mesopotamia, the name, not so much political as geographical (scarcely in use before the time of Alexander the Great), of a region in Asia, lying between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris (whence it took its name; cf. Arrian. anab. Alex. 7,7; Tar. ann. 6,37; נַהֲרַיִם אֲרַם, Aram of the two rivers, Josephus, Antiquities 12,3, 4): Herodotus, vol. i. Essay ix.)
