ABSTRACT
Pompey had fled to Larissa and thence to the sea, where he boarded a merchantman and set sail for Mitylene. The fortress of Pelusium, near which the opposing armies of Ptolemy and Cleopatra were arrayed, stood on low desert ground overlooking the sea, not Far East of the modern Port Said. Civil war broke out, and the two armies met on the plains of Pharsalia. Civil War had been a very great strain upon his nerves, and he must have looked forward to a few weeks of actual holiday here in the luxurious royal apartments which he had so casually appropriated. A few days later, on October 2nd, Julius Ceasar, in hot pursuit, arrived at Alexandria, where he heard with genuine disgust of the miserable death of his great enemy. They probably fled back to Europe on the death of their commanding officer.
