How To Use Pyrrhus In A Sentence
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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.
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On the first day of his retreat the king reached a place called Pyrrhus 'Camp in Molossian Triphylia.
The History of Rome, Vol. IV
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At the great battle of Ipsus, where so many kings were engaged, Pyrrhus, taking part with
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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(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
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Whereat Nicostratus marvelled not a little; and: -- "Pyrrhus," quoth he, "I verily believe thou dreamest.
The Decameron, Volume II
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King Pyrrhus of Epirus used elephants as a shock tactic against his enemies.
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Pyrrhus did not explode in a tyrannic tantrum. On the contrary, among his friends he commended Fabricius.
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It was built in the third century BC in the time of King Pyrrhus of Epiros, but was remodelled by the Romans.
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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)
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To paraphrase Pyrrhus, if sales keep soaring like this, then home builders will be utterly undone.
Pyrrhic Victory in June Housing Data
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Pyrrhus," said he, "the Romans are said to be good soldiers, and to rule over many warlike nations.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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King Pyrrhus of Epirus was an ambitious ruler whose aim was to revive the empire of his second cousin, Alexander the Great.
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Pyrrhus in the air of his face had something more of the terrors, than of the augustness of kingly power; he had not a regular set of upper teeth, but in the place of them one continued bone, with small lines marked on it, resembling the divisions of a row of teeth.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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After taking Gytheum Nabis returned with his army equipped for rapid marching, and hurrying past Lacedaemon he seized a position known as Pyrrhus 'Camp, which he felt quite certain that the Achaeans were making for.
The History of Rome, Vol. V
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I strongly suspect that the introduction of the name of 'Pyrrhus' into
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
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Gentleman, gracefull of person, excellent in speech, and every way as active as no man could be more: his name Pyrrhus, highly affected of Nicostratus, and more intimately trusted then all the rest.
The Decameron
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Pyrrhus, who had diligently observed the whole cariage of this businesse, saide to himselfe.
The Decameron
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Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Pyrrhus, whose youth carieth some correspondency with mine; and so constantly have I setled my love to him, as I am not well, but when
The Decameron
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Next to that outcome, Pyrrhus won a stupendous triumph.
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