IX. 
336 PHARSALIA. 
CHAP, we could not procure a sight of any one of 
them. This place is an Episcopal See, under 
the Archbishopric of Larissa'. Straho men- 
tions the old and the new town". The old is 
also often noticed by Livy, and by other 
writers \ 
Monday, December 21, we left Pharsalus, in a 
thick fog. In a quarter of an hour we saw a 
Fieidofthe TuTtiulus, OX Polvandrium, the usual indication of 
Battle of , , "^ . , . , , 
pharsaiia. dijlcld of battle \ as m the mstances already so 
often adduced. We came to a bridge of four- 
teen arches ; five whereof were large, and the 
rest of inconsiderable and disproportionate size. 
The situation of this bridge, with respect to 
Pharsa, very accurately agrees with a remark 
by Appian"^ as to the interval between Pharsalus 
and the river Enipeus. We cannot possibly 
therefore have a better beacon for the situation 
of the contest between Ccesar and Pompey\ as 
(1) Vid. Annot. in Stephan. de Urbib. ed. Gronov. p. 691. Not. 53. 
(2) Ibid. Strab. Geog. lib. ix. 
(3) Ibid. 
('1) '■ Aio oh r.at TiTTa^XKia'^iXltiv; tuv 'iraXaiv <puXazxs rov ffrotiroTioov 
xaraXtVuv, "Tto-^naaai td'j; Xoiriovs, I; to fiiTa.%v '^a^ffaXou ts -^oXius xat 
' S.vi'Tr'iaj; <xtTafiw, 'i\6a xcct o KaTffa^ aurihiKOff/iii. i. e. Quapropter relictis 
quatuor millibus Italorum, qui castra custodirent, csteros deduxit in 
aclem inter Pharsalum urbem et Enipeum amnem, Ubi ct Caesar ex 
adverso constitit, castris dispositis." Vid. Ap^nan. de Bell. Civil, lib. ii. 
vol. II. p. 278. Ed. Sckweighaeuser. Lips. 1785. 
