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Updated: June 9, 2025
Between the two armies lay some steep high hills about Cynoscephalae, which both parties endeavored to take by their foot. Pelopidas commanded his horse, which were good and many, to charge that of the enemies; they routed and pursued them through the plain.
The Armies at Pharsalus Caesar lay to the south of Larisa in the plain which extends between the hill-country of Cynoscephalae and the chain of Othrys and is intersected by a tributary of the Peneius, the Enipeus on the left bank of the latter stream near the town of Pharsalus; Pompeius pitched his camp opposite to him on the right bank of the Enipeus along the slope of the heights of Cynoscephalae.
Rhodes and Athens, together with King Attalus of Pergamon, sought for help against Philip. The Romans were joined by the AEtolians, and afterwards by the Achaians. In 197, the consul T. Quintius Flamininus defeated him at the battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly, and imposed upon him such conditions of peace as left him powerless against the interests of Rome.
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