Pyrrhus

How To Use Pyrrhus In A Sentence

• In 273 BC, King Areus of Sparta was away with most of the army when his unpopular uncle Cleonymus invited King Pyrrhus of Epirus to invade Sparta.
• On the first day of his retreat the king reached a place called Pyrrhus 'Camp in Molossian Triphylia. The History of Rome, Vol. IV
• At the great battle of Ipsus, where so many kings were engaged, Pyrrhus, taking part with The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• (where Lycomedes then reigned) in his nonage to be brought up; to avoid that hard destiny of the oracle (he should be slain at the siege of Troy): and for that cause was nurtured in Genesco, amongst the king's children in a woman's habit; but see the event: he compressed Deidamia, the king's fair daughter, and had a fine son, called Pyrrhus by her. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Whereat Nicostratus marvelled not a little; and: -- "Pyrrhus," quoth he, "I verily believe thou dreamest. The Decameron, Volume II
• King Pyrrhus of Epirus used elephants as a shock tactic against his enemies.
• Pyrrhus did not explode in a tyrannic tantrum. On the contrary, among his friends he commended Fabricius.
• It was built in the third century BC in the time of King Pyrrhus of Epiros, but was remodelled by the Romans.
• I repeat it in Latin, because the equivocality, which equally implies, that Pyrrhus could conquer the Romans, and the Romans Pyrrhus, will not subsist in a translation. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
• To paraphrase Pyrrhus, if sales keep soaring like this, then home builders will be utterly undone. Pyrrhic Victory in June Housing Data