[888] The name of Thessaly is not found in Homer; and it is marked by Thucydides as modern: ἡ νῦν Θεσσαλία καλουμένη. May it not be reasonably conjectured, that when the great Dorian tribe had evacuated Hellas to reconquer the Peloponnesus, this Thessalid branch of the Heraclidæ, which had migrated to the south-east, went back thither, and imparted to it the name of their ancestor?
[889] Cramer i. 360.
[890] Il. iv. 202.
[891] Il. ii. 641.
[892] Il. vi. 152, compared with ii. 570.
[893] Il. ii. 659, 60, and xi. 689, 91.
[894] New Cratylus, ch. iv. p. 77.
[895] Hist. of Persia, ii. 507.
[896] Quart. Rev. vol. 101. p. 503.
[897] Malcolm’s Hist. chap. i. p. 1. n.