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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (177653)7/6/2002 2:46:32 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
re >>this is likely to be a Pyrrhic victory<< and

>>(Main Entry: pyr·rhic
Pronunciation: 'pir-ik
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin pyrrhichius, from Greek (pous) pyrrhichios, from pyrrhichE, a kind of dance) <<

is it real [edit: Duke&Dolphin stuff] or just BS?

A. There's nothing like winning the battle but losing the war. We call this kind of triumph, winning at too terrible a cost, a Pyrric victory, although it's likely that most people don't know why.
Pyrrus ruled the ancient kingdom of Epirus. He even managed to inflict a defeat on the Romans at the battle of Asculum. But the king probably should have stayed in bed on that day in 279 B.C. because his victory cost him the lives of his most effective officers, leaving his army without leadership. "One more such victory and we are lost," he is said to have remarked. Well, at least that got an expression coined out of his name, but since it's not a very positive expression, that too was a Pyrric victory.


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