It occurs for the first time in his work Bellum civile/Pharsalia.
Antoine de Laurès (1708–1779), writer, friend of Voltaire, translator into French of Pharsalia by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of La fête de Cythère, a one act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny.
Not far from Krk in 49 BC there was a decisive sea battle between Caesar and Pompey, which was described impressively by the Roman writer Lucan (AD 39–65) in his work Pharsalia.
Lucan also describes the attack of the jaculus in the Pharsalia.
Later literary accounts often attributed Pompey's murder solely to Septimius, as in the poem Pharsalia by the Roman poet Lucan, or in modern fictionalizations such as the George Bernard Shaw play Caesar and Cleopatra, and the HBO television series Rome (depicted in the episodes "Pharsalus" and "Caesarion").