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
Even Julius Caesar had shown the importance which he attached to it by taking the words ‘Venus Victrix’ for his watchword at the battle of Pharsalia.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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
Having been educated by a French priest at Rome, he entered the Jesuits’ college of his native town, where he produced a tragedy on the 412 story of Darius, and versified the Pharsalia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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