Date of Pharsalus

[Jona Lendering]

Simple question - difficult answer. The battle of Pharsalus is commonly dated 9 August. Of course, in the republican calendar, this was 9 Sextilis; and of course, in our (post-Caesarian reform) calendar it was June. Which source says 9 August or 9 Sextilis? I can't find it in Caesar's Civil War, Livy's Periochae, or Dio.

[Praefectusclassis]

Hi Jona,
Wouldn't Cicero's letters be a good starting point for that quest?

[Tib. Gabinius]

Yap i guess also,"Letters to Atticus" should give the answer

[Jona Lendering]

It's CIL I(2) 324.

[Praefectusclassis]

That was unexpected!
Pharsalus is actually in more inscriptions: CIL 09, 02319 = CIL 09, 02320 = CIL 01, p 0217 = InscrIt-13-02, p 177;
CIL 09, 04192 (p 698) = InscrIt-13-02, 00025;
CIL 10, 06638 = AE 2000, +00055

[Jona Lendering]

That was unexpected!

I have not seen it personally yet, but it sounds plausible.

[Praefectusclassis]

They all seem to be calendars of festivities. I(2) 324 was not among the ones I found in the database, btw.