| The chiefs of the party looked upon him with suspicion, and he was not present at the battle of Pharsalus. |
| When he had come to Pharsalus and collected his army there, he marched straight to attack Alexander. |
| In an exceedingly short engagement later that year, he decisively defeated Pompey at Pharsalus, in Greece. |
| By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus. |
| He manages to provide a striking portrait of the mixed and ambivalent feelings of Caesar's and Pompeius' troops who were about to fight each other in the battle of Pharsalus. |
| At Pharsalus, Pompey and his army counted on a cavalry corps turning and taking Caesar in the rear. |
