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Then, being roused to anger by this disaster, they sent their king, Cleomenes, by land at the head of a larger force; and he, after defeating the Thessalian cavalry when they attempted to intercept his march into Attica, shut up Hippias within what was known as the Pelargic wall and blockaded him there with the assistance of the Athenians.
As soon as a part of his army was ready, he sent them forward under the command of a distinguished general and minister of state, named Cineas. Cineas occupied a very high position in Pyrrhus's court. He was a Thessalian by birth. He had been educated in Greece, under Demosthenes, and he was a very accomplished scholar and orator as well as statesman.
They were aided by the Boeotians and Phocians. Myronides marched to Pharsalus, a Thessalian city, and mastered the surrounding country; but the obstinate resistance of the city promising a more protracted blockade than it was deemed advisable to await, the Athenians raised the siege without effecting the object of the expedition.
I suppose you were down at that old Castle again, and Adrien too! What were you doing there?" "Minding our own business," he replied smilingly, as he lit a cigarette. "Close as a fox, you are," she declared, with a short, disagreeable laugh. "Where's Adrien? Down there still?" "No; at the Thessalian. I left him there with Mortimer Shelton." "I hate that man," said Miss Lester viciously.
Augustus had called into being the port of Caesarea as the Peiraieus of the Old Thessalian or Umbrian Ravenna. Haven and city grew and became one; but the faithless element again fell back; the haven of Augustus became dry land covered by orchards, and Classis arose as the third station, leaving Ravenna itself an inland city.
You are ever like this, dear Aeschines, now mad, now sad, and crying for all things at your whim. Yet, tell me, what is your new trouble? Aeschines. The Argive, and I, and the Thessalian rough rider, Apis, and Cleunichus the free lance, were drinking together, at my farm.
Up, my Thessalian! So so. Are you hurt? That's well! Come along with us! we are for the shore! 'O Sallust! it is thy voice! The gods be thanked! Glaucus! Glaucus! Glaucus! have ye seen him? 'Not I. He is doubtless out of the city by this time. The gods who saved him from the lion will save him from the burning mountain.
All Greece, within and without the Peloponnesus, except Argos and Attica and some Thessalian cities, was enrolled in a confederacy under the lead of Sparta, and Spartan governors and garrisons occupied the principal cities. Her citadel, the Cadmea, was filled with Spartan soldiers, and the independence of Greece was at an end.
If a further struggle with Rome could hardly be avoided, it was not desirable at any rate to begin it till the western Hellenes should be united under one ruler, till Sicily should be acquired and perhaps Africa be conquered. Provided with such instructions, the Thessalian Cineas, the confidential minister of Pyrrhus, went to Rome.
'If such a day could come! said Glaucus, catching the enthusiasm of the blind Thessalian, and half rising. 'But no! the sun has set, and the night only bids us be forgetful and in forgetfulness be gay weave still the roses!
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