Pyrrhus

Upon the same principle, in the time of Pyrrhus, it had been stipulated, by treaty, between the Carthaginians and Romans, that if either of them afterwards entered into any engagement with Pyrrhus, the party so contracting should reserve to itself the right of sending succours to the other, if attacked by that king.

It may not perhaps be amiss to cite, in this place, the message sent by the men of Jabesh Gilead to the Ammonites, by whom they were besieged, and also that of the prophet Elisha, and at the same time to mention the conduct of Valerius Laevinus, who boasted of having killed Pyrrhus.

Indeed in the war against Pyrrhus the declaration was made to one of his soldiers, in the Flaminian Circus, where, as Servius observes in his notes on the sixth book of the Aeneid, he was commanded to purchase a piece of ground, as a handle for dispute.

nor again would his son, born of him, warring with Pyrrhus, have fallen in battle as consul, and offered himself, the third victim of his line in unbroken succession, for the commonwealth.

If we are to assess and value property, which, pray, shall we value the more highly — the money of Pyrrhus, which he was offering to Fabricius, or the self-restraint of Fabricius, who refused that money?

the elder Decius, fighting with the Latins, his son with the Etruscans, his grandson with Pyrrhus, would not have flung themselves upon the enemy's weapons;

I do not ask how great a memory Simonides is said to have had, how great Theodectes, how great Cineas, who was sent as envoy by Pyrrhus to the senate, how great Charmadas lately, how great Metrodorus of Scepsis, who lived but recently, how great our own Hortensius:

but Pyrrhus, men of Athens, one of the Eteobutadae, who was indicted for serving on a jury when he was in debt to the Treasury, was thought by some of you to deserve capital punishment, and he was convicted in your court and put to death.

Pyrrhus of Lamptra declared that the property had been consecrated by Nicostratus to Athena but that it had been given him by Nicostratus himself.

Now take the deposition which shows that Pyrrhus adopted my brother.

Judges, my mother's brother, Pyrrhus, having no legitimate issue, adopted my brother Endius as his son.

Pyrrhus had adopted one of his sister's two sons, Endius, who enjoyed the estate for more than twenty years and then died.

Fabricius rejected the gold of King Pyrrhus, and judged it greater than a kingdom to be able to despise a king's wealth.

They say that Pyrrhus, the greatest teacher of the gymnastic contest, was wont to charge those whom he trained not to grow angry;

Or why did Apollo not rescue Delphi from the hand of Pyrrhus?

But with what cunning they shape the ambiguities of their oracles to fit the events, the cases of Croesus, the cases of Pyrrhus, know.

But Pyrrhus too occupied himself in catching fishes;

How will he persuade me that he was Aethalides and Euphorbus and Pyrrhus the fisherman and Hermotimus, before Pythagoras, in order to persuade me that the living are made out of the dead — he who again perjured himself to be Pythagoras?