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With my flatmates we got a proper history book about Roman history and read a bit about the Pyrrhic wars.
I must say that the whole story is a bit romanced even though it comes from a credited historian.
Apparently during a fight against a filo Roman legion, Pyrrhus was wounded while fighting by a sword in the head and thus retreated.
After this, a guy from the other faction run in the middle of the two factions, he was a huge man with a beautiful armour.
He started insulting Pyrrhus and screaming that he was a coward since he retreated and wasn't fighting anymore.
Pyrrhus was offended by this, and even though his guards tried to stop him, he managed to get back to the battleground while still wounded and bloody.
He came up to this big man and striked him in the head with his sword, killing him instantly.
The enemy legion retreated scared of him, and started believing he was some kind of God.

Later, in Argus, he was fighting in the streets.
He engaged in combat with a man.
Unluckily for him, the mother of this man was watching the fights from a nearby roof.
Before he could strike him down, she threw a roof tile, hitting Pyrrhus in the head and killing him.
What a way to die for such a godlike man...

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