Assўrĭa

I. a country of Asia, between Media, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia, now Kurdistan, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66 al.—Hence, Assўrĭus, a, um, adj., = Ἀσσύριος, Assyrian, Verg. E. 4, 25; Luc. 6, 429; Stat. S. 3, 3, 212 al.; and Assўrĭi, ōrum, m., the Assyrians, Cic. Div. 1, 1, 1; Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 41; Vulg. Gen. 2, 14; ib. Isa. 7, 17 al.—Sometimes poetic for Median, Phrygian, Phœnician, Indian, etc.; so, puella, Sen. Herc. Oet. 554: venenum, i.e., Sil. 11, 41: stagnum, Just. 18, 3: ebur, Ov. Am. 2, 5, 40: malus, i. e. Medica, Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 48; cf. Voss ad Verg. G. 2, 126.