| By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus. |
| When he had come to Pharsalus and collected his army there, he marched straight to attack Alexander. |
| After Pharsalus M. Marcellus retired to Mytilene, where he practised rhetoric and studied philosophy. |
| After the battle of Pharsalus, he was commissioned to transport some recently levied troops to Illyricum. |
| 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 Caesar's decisive victory against Pompey, at Pharsalus, all the territories under Roman domination will have a new political configuration. |
