Pharsalia.
An epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan describing Caesar's Civil War.
Meaning & usage
An epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan describing Caesar's Civil War.
The Battle of Pharsalus of 48 B.C.E.
The region around Pharsalus (modern Farsala), a Greek town.
Where this word comes from
From Latin Pharsālia (“the region of Pharsalus”), borrowed as a title for Lucan's poem from a line in the work itself: “Pharsālia nostra / vīvet” (“Our Pharsalia / will live”, book 9, lines 985–6). The original Latin title was Dē Bellō Cīvīlī (“On the Civil War”).
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