How do you pronounce pharsalia?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌfɑːˈseɪli.ə/.

pharsalia

/ˌfɑːˈseɪli.ə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English

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The Battle of Pharsalus of 48 B.C.E.

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"[…] ev’ry Time he’s named Pharſalia rises to my View—I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood."
"[…] much as Caesar's tale of portents on the day of Pharsalia, showed Caesar in harmony with the Roman Pantheon."

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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