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Pyrrhos
Greek · ancient
"a king's name"
a king of Epirus whose costly victory over Rome came at devastating cost to his own army
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pyrrhic
English · 1885
"won at a cost too great to justify the victory"
coined for a victory won at such great cost it amounts to defeat
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