Pharsalia
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Pharsalian adjective
Example Sentences
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What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia?
From Time Magazine Archive
Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pharsalia, his only extant work, is an epic poem of about eight thousand lines in ten books on the civil war between Pompey and Caesar.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
Lucan mentions this miracle in the ninth book of his Pharsalia, when he is describing the incredible force-222- of the South wind.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
My belief that Julius C�sar existed, is my belief that I should have seen him if I had been present in the field of Pharsalia, or in the senate-house at Rome.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
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