Pyrrhic War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC) was a complex series of battles and shifting political alliances among the Greeks (specifically Epirus, Macedonia, and the city states of Magna Graecia), Romans, the Ita...
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The devastation led to his famous statement, "One more such victory and I am lost" -- hence the term "Pyrrhic victory" for any victory so costly as to be ruinous. ... For more about Pyrrhic victories and Freudian slips, see our loop titled Who's What ... Pyrrhic War...
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Pyrrhic victory - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... The phrase 'pyrrhic victory' is an allusion to the battle. John Dryden's translation of Plutarch's Pyrrhus, 75 AD reports that:
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Pyrrhic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of two unaccented, short syllables. It is also known as a dibrach . Tennyson used pyrrhics and spondees quite frequently. Here are s...
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Definition of pyrrhic in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of pyrrhic. Pronunciation of pyrrhic. Translations of pyrrhic. pyrrhic synonyms, pyrrhic antonyms. Information about pyrrhic in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... Noun 1. pyrrhic - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables...
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Don't Pay the Energy; Companies for; Electricity! ... A Pyrrhic victory is one where the cost is greater than the benefit. You win, but you really lose. ... Who was King Pyrrhus and what happened during his Pyrrhic victory?
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Pyrrhic victory ... Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications -- but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.
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Pyrrhic victory: Definition and Pronunciation ... World & News ... Pyrrhic victory (Thesaurus)
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Pyrrhus was king of the Hellenistic kingdom of Epirus whose costly military successes against Macedonia and Rome gave rise to the phrase' Pyrrhic victory'.
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