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freddie mertz

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Fri Mar-19-10 07:14 AM
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3. A Pyrrhic victory, I fear.

A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced /ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such devastating cost to the victor, it carries the implication that another such will ultimately cause defeat.

The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

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