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What does Pharsalus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Pharsalus? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. An ancient city in Phthiotis in the modern Fthiotida prefecture, Greece
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After Caesar's decisive victory against Pompey, at Pharsalus, all the territories under Roman domination will have a new political configuration.
Caesar at Pharsalus, for similar reasons, did not hesitate to decrease his depth.
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.
When he had come to Pharsalus and collected his army there, he marched straight to attack Alexander.
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.
After Pharsalus M. Marcellus retired to Mytilene, where he practised rhetoric and studied philosophy.

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