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The tones of its voice were peculiarly deep. It answered the description of Shakspeare: "So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd, like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each." It was the slowness of the breed which occasioned its disuse.
A weak voice answered 'Who calls on me? Is it the voice of the Shades? Lo! I am prepared! 'Arise! follow me! Take my hand! Glaucus, thou shalt be saved! In wonder and sudden hope, Glaucus arose 'Nydia still? Ah! thou, then, art safe! The tender joy of his voice pierced the heart of the poor Thessalian, and she blessed him for his thought of her.
'Play to us, dear Nydia, said Glaucus 'play and give us one of thine old Thessalian songs: whether it be of magic or not, as thou wilt let it, at least, be of love!
"Why should I haste?" said young and rosy Hylas; The seas are rough, and long the way from Colchis. Beneath the snow-white awning slumbers Jason, Pillowed upon his tame Thessalian panther; The shields are piled, the listless oars suspended On the black thwarts, and all the hairy bondsmen Doze on the benches. They may wait for water Till I have bathed in mountain-born Scamander."
Having forced his way through a desultory opposition offered by the Thessalian cavalry, he crossed Mount Othrys, and marched unopposed the rest of the way through the straits of Thermopylae to the frontiers of Phocis and Boeotia.
He now set out again in pursuit of Darius, with the intention of fighting another battle with him: but on hearing that Darius had been taken by the satrap Bessus, he dismissed all his Thessalian cavalry and sent them home, giving them a largess of two thousand talents over and above the pay which was due to them.
'DEAREST Nydia! exclaimed Glaucus as he read the letter of Ione, 'whitest robed messenger that ever passed between earth and heaven how, how shall I thank thee? 'I am rewarded, said the poor Thessalian. 'To-morrow to-morrow! how shall I while the hours till then?
There a vegetation springs up of virtue to compel the Gods; and Colchis itself imports from Thessaly treasures of this sort which she cannot boast as her own. The chaunt of the Thessalian witch penetrates the furthest seat of the Gods, and contains words so powerful, that not the care of the skies, or of the revolving spheres, can avail as an excuse to the deities to decline its force.
On this side the chariots had done some damage, and the horse was more than a match for the Thessalian cavalry. Parmenio found himself in difficulties about the time when the Persian king fled. His messengers detained a part of the phalanx, which was about to engage in the pursuit, and even recalled Alexander, who was hastening upon the track of Darius.
The sole survivor then retired and while he was out of the arena there entered a superb pair of bay horses, drawing a chariot of Greek pattern, in which, to the amazement of all beholders, was Narcissus, the wrestler, himself, habited as Automedon and acting as charioteer; while beside him, magnificent in a triple crested crimson-plumed helmet of the Thessalian type, in a gilded corselet of the style of the Heroic age, with gilded scales on its kilt-straps, with gilded greaves, with a big gilded Argive shield embossed with reliefs, and holding two spears, manifestly habited as Achilles, stood Palus.
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