OpinionJournal - Thinking Things Over So the epic trial ended with a government victory. But one
that brings to mind Pyrrhus of Epirus, king of an ancient
country in northwest Greece. Plutarch reports that after
defeating the Romans in the battle of Asculum in 279 B.C.
Pyrrhus said, "One more victory like this will be the end of
me." His name lives on in the word for victory at too great
a cost.