Thessalian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Some of the most exquisitely crafted pieces are small decorative elements made for the harnesses of soldiers’ horses — the powerful and celebrated Thessalian breed, perhaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
But do you tell me, O you Thessalian wrestler, Myrtilus! why it is that fish are called by the poets ἔλλοπες?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
In times remote, In Athens and the cool Thessalian dells, They sung thy liturgy with dulcet note, And quaff'd thy chalice from the sacred wells Of leafy Helicon.
From Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
Thessalian shows some examples of the Homeric genitive in -οιο: πολέμοιο, &c.; its ordinary genitive of ο- stems is in -οι.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
For example, if a Thessalian stock had believed in descent from an ant, and wished to trace their pedigree to Zeus, they had merely to say, "Zeus was that ant".
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
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