Pharsalus

American  

[fahr-sey-luhs] / fɑrˈseɪ ləs /

noun

1. an ancient city in central Greece, in Thessaly: site of Caesar's victory over Pompey 48 b.c.

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Pharsalus British  

/ fɑːˈseɪləs /

noun

1. an ancient town in Thessaly in N Greece. Several major battles were fought nearby, including Caesar's victory over Pompey (48 _bc )

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Example Sentences

Not alone were the Napoleonic battles thus depicted, but also the great contests of which the boys had read or heard at school,—Thermopyl�, Marathon, Leuctra, Cann�, and Pharsalus.

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On the outbreak of the civil war, De�otarus naturally sided with his old patron Pompey, and after the battle of Pharsalus escaped with him to Asia.

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As a result of Caesar’s victory at Pharsalus, the whole country fell into his power; the treatment which it received was on the whole lenient, though individual cities were punished severely.

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After the battle of Pharsalus, he was commissioned to transport some recently levied troops to Illyricum.

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The fresco depicts the ancient Battle of Pharsalus as a naked struggle of men and horses, a swarm of bodies in sepia monochrome – a strange and disturbing spectacle, in short.

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