Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong
Don't trust that fathead LivyAnyhow, Hannibal (allegedly) had a friendly discussion with Scipio Africanus in Ephesos. When Scipio asked Hannibal who he thought were the best generals of history, Hannibal stated that the best would be #1 Alexandros, #2 Pyrrhos, #3 Hannibal. He also said that if Scipio had not beaten him at Zama, Hannibal would be #1
"It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive_alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, atc. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment." - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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