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| Pharsalus |
(fär´säl s) (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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