The story
- Latin · borrowed fromPharsālia“the region of Pharsalus”
- English todayPharsalia
From Latin Pharsālia (“the region of Pharsalus”), borrowed as a title for Lucan's poem from a line in the work itself: “Pharsālia nostra / vīvet” (“Our Pharsalia / will live”, book 9, lines 985–6). The original Latin title was Dē Bellō Cīvīlī (“On the Civil War”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.