Pyrrhic victory

Japanese: Pyrrhic victory(英語表記)Pyrrhicvictory
Pyrrhic victory

...After the Trojan War, he was killed in a fight with a priest at Delphi, or he went to Epirus, a region in the northwest of mainland Greece, and became king of the Molossians. Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who fought against the Roman army in southern Italy from 280 to 279 BC, barely won a victory at great cost to the Romans, and later came to be known as the Pyrrhic victory, but he also claimed to be a descendant of Neoptolemus. [Tomohiro Mizutani]...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Pyrrhic victory" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…トロイア戦後の彼については,デルフォイで神官と争って殺されたとも,ギリシア本土西北部のエペイロス地方へ赴き,モロッソス人の王となったともいう。前280‐前279年にイタリア南部でローマ軍と戦ったエペイロス王ピュロスは,多大の犠牲を払ってかろうじて勝利をおさめたことから,のちの世にPyrrhic victory(〈引き合わない勝利〉の意)の言葉を残したが,その彼はみずからをネオプトレモスの後裔と主張した。【水谷 智洋】。…

※「Pyrrhic victory」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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