Quote Originally Posted by Quintus.JC View Post
The actual battle was fought on the 9th of August 48.BC I believe.
Just found this in Wiki -

"The date of the battle is given as 9 August. This is according to the republican calendar. The date according to the Julian calendar, was either 29 June 48 BC (according to Le Verrier's chronological reconstruction) or 7 June 48 BC (according to Drumann/Groebe). Pompey was assassinated on September 3rd. The point is not entirely academic; had the battle taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would have been senseless"

So perhaps we are all right and all wrong!! - and well done to Insane Apache for suggesting something along those lines