thessalian
Speech parts
1. thessalian - Noun
2. thessalian - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to Thessaly in Greece.
A native or inhabitant of Thessaly.
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Examples
Not much later, Thessaly surrendered to the Persians. citation The Thessalian family of Aleuadae joined the Persians subsequently.
Philip returned to Thessaly the next summer, this time with an army of 20,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry including all Thessalian troops.
Some sources speculate that Chiron was originally a Thessalian god, later subsumed into the Greek pantheon as a centaur.
The metopes of the south side show the Thessalian Centauromachy (battle of the Lapiths aided by Theseus against the half-man, half-horse Centaurs ).
There were many ancient Greek cities with this name. citation The name of Thessalian Larissa is first recorded in connection with the aristocratic Aleuadai family.
This powerful family possessed for many generations before 369 BC the privilege of furnishing the tagus, the local term for the strategos of the combined Thessalian forces.