Victory
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Victory the deity
ghalabah · the delight of victory · victory
in the texts
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The pleasure of winning, adduced as a non-sensory delight that outweighs sensory ones.
yet we see that one who has the mastery of some victory — even in a base matter such as chess or backgammon — may have food and a bedmate offered to him, and leaves it for what he gets in exchange of the delight of victory.
Anabasis
Desired battlefield success associated with rewards, the watchword, and the Greeks' initial rout of the enemy.
Now if we win the victory, we must put our friends in control of these provinces.
Then some of the others also sought Cyru s’ presence, demanding to know what they should have, in case of victory;
When Cyrus saw that the Greeks were victorious over the division opposite them and were in pursuit, although he was pleased and was already being saluted with homage as King by his attendants, he nevertheless was not induced to join the pursuit, but, keeping in close formation the six hundred horsemen of his troop, he was watching to see what the King would do.