Pharsalia
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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
His principal work is a translation of the Pharsalia, in which both the defects and the merits of the original are represented with remarkable fidelity.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
Examples.—La batalo apud Farsalo ŝanĝis multajn aferojn en Romo = The battle near Pharsalia changed many things in Rome.
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George
In the next generation, the Pharsalia of Lucan, of which Cato, as the type of the republican spirit, is the hero, was the principal example of Latin epic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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