Entry #154 Greek source: meineke Meineke: 446.22 | Billerbeck: Μ154 OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28 Word count: 17 AI prompt: v1 Sources: Κουαδράτος (Quadratus) FGrHist 97 F 29a Entities: Μέση (Mese (the 'Middle')) [place], Εὐφράτης (Euphrates) [place], Τίγρις (Tigris) [place], Ἀδιαβηνή (Adiabene) [place], Μεσοποταμίτης (Mesopotamite (Mesopotamian)) [people] Etymologies: Morphological Composition: 'Mesē (of) the rivers; a country between the Euphrates and the Tigris.' (The demonym: Mesopotamites.); Unclear Metalinguistic: 'And it was called Adiabene, as Quadratus records.' Source: e9783110219630_i1418.jpg Edit
Mesē of the Rivers: a region between the Euphrates and the Tigris. It was also called Adiabēnē, as Quadratus records. The ethnicon is Mesopotamitēs (“Mesopotamian”).
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