Pharsalia
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What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia?
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Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia.
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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
She wishes, in the "Pharsalia," that she had married Cæsar.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
So Caesar and Pompey sat down to supper very lovingly, and talked over Pharsalia.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
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