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King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage. When these things are remembered no one will marvel at the ease with which Alexander held the Empire of Asia, or at the difficulties which others have had to keep an acquisition, such as Pyrrhus and many more; this is not occasioned by the little or abundance of ability in the conqueror, but by the want of uniformity in the subject state. |
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Pyrrhus - king of Epirus; defeated the Romans in two battles in spite of staggering losses (319-272 BC)