Deed — 3 authors face each other below

battle of Pharsalus

kind: battle · 48 BCE — the editor’s frame · 26 mentions across 19 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Caesar's defeat of Pompey in Thessaly. The candidate row 'battle-of-pharsalia' is the same event under the Dryden-tradition spelling; this curated row is the single address.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Suetonius, citing the eyewitness Pollio, has Caesar over the corpses: 'They would have it so.' Plutarch gives Pompey's camp its omens and dreams; Tacitus' generation lists Pharsalia among the names men shudder at. Victor's words, loser's omens, posterity's shudder — three registers on one field.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 48 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 48 BCE — date secure ·

48 BCE, the civil-war summer; Suetonius quotes Asinius Pollio — who fought there — word for word on Caesar's verdict over the dead.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 3 accounts

42–46 the principal narrative The battle from Caesar's line, with Pompey's foreboding.

both armies entered the plain of Pharsalus and encamped there, Pompey’s mind reverted again to its former reasoning Plut. Caesar 42

Caesar · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

68–72 the principal narrative The same field from the losing tent: Labienus' oath, the dream of the theatre.

they had gone down into the plain of Pharsalia, they forced Pompey to hold a council of war Plut. Pompey 68

Pompey · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

6 the aftermath — the event itself offstage Brutus slipping out of the beaten camp — the survivor who matters next.

After the defeat at Pharsalus, when Pompey had made his escape to the sea and his camp was besieged, Brutus went out unnoticed Plut. Brutus 6

Brutus · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Suetonius · one account

30–35 the principal narrative Suetonius' compressed account, carrying Pollio's eyewitness quotation.

when Caesar at the battle of Pharsalus saw his enemies slain or in flight, he said, word for word: “They would have it so. Suet. Jul. 30

finally routed him in the battle at Pharsalus, followed him in his flight to Alexandria Suet. Jul. 35

'They would have it so' arrives labeled with its source — Pollio's lost history surfacing as a fragment. The Deified Julius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · one account

2.38 looking back Pharsalia as a byword in the historian of the next civil war.

citizens did not lay down their arms at Pharsalia and Philippi Tac. Hist. 2.38

The Histories · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1864

…and the house’s first pass counts 13 more episodes beyond these anchors.

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Caesar — a candidate entry Pompey — 11 episodes shared Cato — a candidate entry Cato the Younger — 6 episodes shared Scipio — a candidate entry Julius Caesar — 4 episodes shared Cicero — 3 episodes shared Juba — a candidate entry Alexander — a candidate entry Alexander of Pherae — 2 episodes shared

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