Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
That is why we have the expressian 'a pyrus victory'. He won the battle but lost the war.
Except for the Romans it wasn't a Pyrrich victory.

The flower of their manhood,not to mention their middle class,lay dead at Traismene and Cannae yet they went on to not only defeat Carthage but conquer Greece and Iberia.Livy talks about them still being picky enough,even after freeing slaves,of being selective of the farmboys they took into the army as they passed through the countryside.