| Pharsalus is a proof of this, where, though the place is small, yet the citizens have great power, from the prudent use they make of it. |
| After Pharsalus M. Marcellus retired to Mytilene, where he practised rhetoric and studied philosophy. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Caesar at Pharsalus, for similar reasons, did not hesitate to decrease his depth. |
