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The Pharsalia, also known as On the Civil War and The Civil War (), is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great. The poem's title is a reference to the Battle of Pharsalus, which occurred in 48 BC, near Pharsalus, Thessaly, in northern Greece. Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in this battle, which occupies all of the epic's seventh book. Though probably incomplete, the poem is widely considered the best epic poem of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
Pharsalia is a historic plantation house and farm complex located near Tyro, Nelson County, Virginia. The main house was built between 1814 and 1816, and is a one-story, 11 bay, linear, single-pile, Federal style, frame manor house. It has a standing seam metal gable roof and features a three-bay porch with a gable roof. It was enlarged in the mid-19th century to its current T-shaped plan. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen / laundry / slave hospital (1834), icehouse / School (c. 1834), crib barn (c. 1830), smokehouse (1814), weaving Room (c. 1814), several slave quarters (c. 1814, 1834), and privy (c. 1814). Also on the property are the sites of a commercial smokehouse (c. 1830) and mill (c. 1830).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Pharsalia is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
subgenus Antennopharsalia
- Pharsalia antennata Gahan, 1895
- Pharsalia jaccoudi Breuning, 1982
subgenus Cycos
- Pharsalia subgemmata (Thomson, 1857)
subgenus Eopharsalia
- Pharsalia biplagiata Breuning, 1950
- Pharsalia clara Breuning, 1940
- Pharsalia claroides Breuning, 1958
- Pharsalia granulipennis Breuning & de Jong, 1941
- Pharsalia implagiata Breuning, 1950
- Pharsalia indica Breuning, 1960
- Pharsalia nicobarica Breuning, 1970
subgenus Pharsalia
- Pharsalia andoi Hayashi, 1975
- Pharsalia borneensis Breuning, 1936
- Pharsalia cameronhighlandica Hayashi, 1975
- Pharsalia cincticornis Pascoe, 1866
- Pharsalia dunni Breuning, 1972
- Pharsalia duplicata Pascoe, 1866
- Pharsalia gibbifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
- Pharsalia lentiginosa Pascoe, 1866
- Pharsalia malasiaca Thomson, 1864
- Pharsalia matangensis Breuning, 1958
- Pharsalia mortalis (Thomson, 1857)
- Pharsalia obliquemaculata Breuning, 1936
- Pharsalia ochreomaculata Breuning, 1968
- Pharsalia ochreopunctata Fuchs, 1957
- Pharsalia ochreostictica Breuning, 1938
- Pharsalia patrona (Pascoe, 1859)
- Pharsalia philippinensis Breuning, 1936
- Pharsalia proxima Gahan, 1890
- Pharsalia pulchra Gahan, 1888
- Pharsalia saperdoides Pascoe, 1866
- Pharsalia setulosa Aurivillius, 1920
- Pharsalia strandi Breuning, 1936
- Pharsalia supposita Pascoe, 1866
- Pharsalia suturalis Aurivillius, 1920
- Pharsalia thibetana Breuning, 1982
- Pharsalia tonkinensis Breuning, 1936
- Pharsalia truncatipennis Heller, 1915
- Pharsalia variegata Aurivillius, 1920