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| | Pharsalus, battle - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) |
 | | The Battle of Pharsalus, in 48 B.C., was the decisive fight between Julius Caesar and the Senate. |
 | | The united army, however, was defeated (7 July), and Caesar had only one option: to march inland, cross the Pindus mountains and defeat Pompey's pursuing army somewhere in Greece on a more suitable place. |
 | | Almost 6,000 Roman soldiers were killed, and when Caesar surveyed the battlefield at sunset and saw the bodies of the dead senators, he remarked: 'Well, they would have it thus.' This was the end of the Roman republic and the beginning of Caesar's autocracy. |
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