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
Merciful as the conqueror appeared, he was understood to be much exasperated against those who, after the rout at Pharsalia, had renewed the war in Africa.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
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 R. W. (Richard William) Church
The great Pompey lost that of Pharsalia, and Francis I., who, from what I have heard, was no fool in the fighting way, got roughly handled at Pavia.'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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