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Pharsalus, Ancient History, Greece

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Pharsalus[fAr´sAlus] Pronunciation Key, ancient city, Thessaly, Greece. Near there in 48 B.C., Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey, who had a much larger force. Lucan's Bellum Civile (often called Pharsalia) is an epic of the civil war.



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