Pharsalus : city in Thessaly (Greece); site of a battle where Caesar defeated Pompey.
... heroism of difficult retreat and flight; the other a mightier heroism of self-perfection and conquest. The one is the retreat of the Ten Thousand; the other is Caesar's movement from Dyrrhachium to [Pharsalus]. One path culminates in Buddha, the other in Janaka and Srikrishna. The language of the Seer is perfectly framed, as in the first line, to bring about a confrontation of two giant opposites. Tyaktena ...
... left came heroes mighty to succour. Chiefs of the Dolopes Ar and Aglauron came mid the foremost, Hillus fair as a drifting moon but fierce as the winter; Pryas came the Thessalian and Sebes whom Pharsalus honoured, Victors in countless fights who had stood against Memnon and Hector. But though their hands were mighty, though fierce their obdurate natures, Mightier strengths they met and a sterner ...
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