What if Pompey had won Pharsalus?

[Epictetus]

He went into battle because the Senate was pushing him to do so. All he had to do is stay where he was and force Ceasar into surrendering his army (hunger, desease, etc.). That's it. But history depicts Caesar as victor because Pompey offered battle, and he was lost.

I've long wondered if some of this is Caesarean propaganda, portraying the disorder and confusion of democracy versus the firm control (and success) of autocracy. For example:

In a word, all were agitating about honours for themselves, or about prizes of money, or about the prosecution of their private quarrels, nor were their reflections concerned with the means by which they could gain the upper hand, but with the way in which they ought to use their victory.

Caesar, Civil Wars, III.83