Assyrĭa, ae, f., = Ἀσσυρία, a country of Asia, between Media, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia, now Kurdistan, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66 al.
Hence, Assyrĭus, a, um, adj., = Ἀσσύριος, Assyrian, Verg. E. 4, 25; Luc. 6, 429; Stat. S. 3, 3, 212 al.; and Assyrĭi, 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, i. e. the Phœnician Europa, Sen. Herc. Oet. 554: venenum, i.e., Tyrian purple, Sil. 11, 41: stagnum, i. e. Lake Gennesareth, in Palestine, Just. 18, 3: ebur, i. e. Indian, Ov. Am. 2, 5, 40: malus, i. e. Medica, the citrontree, Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 48; cf. Voss ad Verg. G. 2, 126.