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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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The chiefs of the party looked upon him with suspicion, and he was not present at the battle of Pharsalus.
In an exceedingly short engagement later that year, he decisively defeated Pompey at Pharsalus, in Greece.
When he had come to Pharsalus and collected his army there, he marched straight to attack Alexander.
Caesar at Pharsalus, for similar reasons, did not hesitate to decrease his depth.
After Pharsalus M. Marcellus retired to Mytilene, where he practised rhetoric and studied philosophy.
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.

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