event
Battle of Pharsalus
Pharsalus
also: battle of Pharsalus
Caesar's decisive defeat of Pompey, 9 August 48 BC, in Thessaly.
Reading notes
- Philippica XIV §23 that most calamitous battle of Pharsalus
Caesar's defeat of Pompey at Pharsalus in 48 BC; Cicero notes that Caesar held no triumph for it because it had destroyed fellow citizens, though he did triumph for Alexandria and over Pharnaces.
- For Quintus Ligarius §9 at Pharsalus
The decisive battle of 9 August 48 BC in Thessaly, where Caesar crushed Pompey's army; Cicero turns the prosecutor's own armed presence there against him.