Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ht-way to Larissa, and from thence by night to thesea-coast. The hill where the Pompeians had takenrefuge being without water, they soon quitted itand took the road towards Larissa. Caesar fol-lowed them with four legions, and, by taking ashorter road, came up with them at the distance of6 miles. The fugitives now retired into anothermountain, at the foot of which there was a river;but Caesar having cut off their approach to thewater before nightfall, they descended from theirposition in the morning and laid down their proceeded on the same
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ht-way to Larissa, and from thence by night to thesea-coast. The hill where the Pompeians had takenrefuge being without water, they soon quitted itand took the road towards Larissa. Caesar fol-lowed them with four legions, and, by taking ashorter road, came up with them at the distance of6 miles. The fugitives now retired into anothermountain, at the foot of which there was a river;but Caesar having cut off their approach to thewater before nightfall, they descended from theirposition in the morning and laid down their proceeded on the same day to observes that the mountain towards Larissato which the Pompeians retired was probably nearScotussa, since in that direction alone is any moun-tain to be found with a river at the foot of it. In the time of Pliny, Pharsalus was a freestate (iv. 8. s. 15). It is also mentioned by Hie-rocles (p. 642) in the sixth century. It is nownamed Firsala (ja ^epaaAa), and the moderntown lies at the foot of the ancient COIN OF PHAnSALi:S. PHARUSII (^apovawi, Strab. ii. p. 131, 826, 828; Ptol. iv. 6. § 17; Polyb. aj}. 1. s. 8, vi. 35), a people on the W. coast of , about the situation of whom Strabo, Pliny,and Ptolemy are in perfect agreement with oneanother, if the thirty journeys of Strabo (p. 826)between them and Lixus (^El-AraisK), on the of Morocco, to the S. of Cape Spartel, be setaside as an error either of his information or of tiietext; which latter is not improbable, as numbers inJISS. are so often corrupt. Nor is this mere con-jecture, because Strabo contradicts himself by as-serting in another place (p. 828) that the Phaiusiihad a great desert between them and Mauretania,which they crossed, like natives of the present day,with bags of water hung from the bellies of ^es. (Leake, ZowcZora Geog. Journ. vol. ii. p. 16.)This locality, extending from beyond Cape Bojadorto the banks of the Senegal, was the seat
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