Pharsalia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan describing Caesar's Civil War.
• The Battle of Pharsalus of 48
• The region around Pharsalus (modern Farsala), a Greek town.

Origin

• , 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.