And it is grieving for one of its congregation: Larissa Atanázio, who was 14.
Larissa MacFarquhar has an excellent, zillion-word piece in the current New Yorker about Kennedy.
So wild a rush was made when Larissa was abandoned, that the soldiers did not even fold their tents or carry away their baggage.
Ambassadors were sent to Larissa, to the diet of the Thessalians.
Xenophon mentions an eclipse as having led to the capture by the Persians of the Median city Larissa.
The Greek army retreated to Pharsala, without so much as striking a blow for Larissa!
There was no pursuit, and the Turkish commander-in-chief did not reach Larissa till the 27th.
