I have come not to trade, but to fight.
οὐκ ἦλθον ὠνησόμενος, ἀλλὰ μαχεσόμενος.
Politicians
Pyrrhus
King of Epirus (r. 307-302 BC; 297-272 BC) and Hellenistic warlord whose costly defeats of Rome at Heraclea (280 BC) and Asculum (279 BC) gave the Western world the term "Pyrrhic victory." A second cousin of Alexander the Great through his Aeacid mother, he was ranked second only to Alexander among history's commanders by Hannibal himself, according to Livy. Yet his strategic restlessness drained his veterans across Italy, Sicily, Macedon, and the Peloponnese, and his career ended in 272 BC with an absurd death — felled by a roof tile thrown by an old woman from above a narrow street during the chaotic civic battle inside Argos.
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Pyrrhus's Other Quotes
If we win one more such battle against the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.
What a wrestling ground, my friends, we are leaving behind for the Carthaginians and the Romans.
The line of these barbarians is not at all barbarian.
Hannibal judged Alexander and Pyrrhus to be the first among all commanders, and himself the second.