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Larissa

or La·ri·sa

[ luh-ris-uh; Greek lah-ree-sah ]

noun

  1. a city in E Thessaly, in E Greece.


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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.

One year he is making a raid into Macedonia and Thessaly and plundering Larissa.

In the neighborhood of Larissa the events of war were protracted and balanced.

The fertility of Larissa tends, as far as it goes, to mark the Pelasgi as a people of cultivators, having settled habits of life.

Now it may have been the general rule to call the citadels of the Pelasgian towns Larissa.

From this it would appear that in the days of Homer, though there were many Pelasgi in various places, there was but one Larissa.

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