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To: Verginius Rufus

I think “mesi” is the root for “middle” or “center”. If that’s the case there might be several of them scattered around Greece. I seem to remember reading something in Herodotus where he’s bad mouthing Thracians and mentions Mesi.


18 posted on 12/11/2008 1:28:34 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Yes, there is an ancient Greek word "mesos" ("mese" in the feminine form) meaning "middle" (as in Mesopotamia, etc.)...the villages with the name were probably perceived as being in the middle (there's one on Tenos that's kind of in the middle of the island).

Herodotus mentions Mysoi, the inhabitants of Mysia, an area in N.W. Asia Minor. Later on there's a group called the Moisoi or Moesi in the Balkans (in modern northern Bulgaria and eastern Serbia), who gave their name to the Roman province of Moesia, but the first mentions of them seem to be later.

21 posted on 12/11/2008 2:54:21 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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