ABSTRACT
Cæsar and Pompey lying now near Dyrrachium, after several Marches and Counter-marches, the former with incredible Diligence runs a vast Line, or Work, round the Camp of the latter. This, Pompey, after suffering for want of Provisions, and a very gallant Resistance of Scæva, a Centurion of Cæsar’s, at length breaks thro’. After this, Cæsar makes another unsuccessful Attempt upon a Part of Pompey’s Army, and then marches away into Thessaly: And Pompey, against the Persuasion and Counsel of his Friends, follows him. After a Description of the ancient Inhabitants, the Boundaries, the Mountains, and Rivers of Thessaly; the Poet takes Occasion from this Country, being famous for Witchcraft, to introduce Sextus Pompeius, inquiring the Event of the Civil War from the Sorceress Erictho.
