Pharsalia

American  

[fahr-sey-lee-uh, -seyl-yuh] / fɑrˈseɪ li ə, -ˈseɪl yə /

noun

1. a district in ancient Greece whose chief city was Pharsalus.

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Other Word Forms

• Pharsalian adjective

Example Sentences

Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia.

From Time Magazine Archive

What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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.

Our most efficient military commander cannot entertain the foolish delusion of Pompey, so crushingly beaten by C�sar, at Pharsalia, that he can raise legions by striking the ground with his foot.

From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges