Thessalonīca

, an ancient town of Macedonia, first called Therma , and The alonica, after The alonica the wife of Cas sander. According to ancient writers it was once very powerful, and it still continues to be a place of note. Strabo , bk. 7 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us. — Cicero , Against Piso , ch. 17 .— Livy , bk. 29 , ch. 17 ; bk. 40 , ch. 4 ; bk. 44 , chs. 10 & 45.— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .――A daughter of Philip king of Macedonia, sister to Alexander the Great. She married Cas sander, by whom she had a son called Anti pater, who put her to death. Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 7 .