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Pyrrhic victory = a victory with devastating cost to the victor; takes its name from King Pyrrhus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties when he defeated the Romans during the Pyrrhic War in 280/279 B.C.; (referred to in Joyce’s Ulysses) Gordian … Continue reading