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If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined. — Pyrrhus of Epirus There are many versions of this quote — first noted in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Most are specific in addressing the Battle of Asculum — in stating that another such victory with similar losses will be his undoing. But I prefer this […]

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