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8.1 This conflict did not fill the Macedonians with wrath and hate towards Pyrrhus for their losses, rather it led those who beheld his exploits and engaged him in the battle to esteem him highly and admire his bravery and talk much about him. For they likened his aspect and his swiftness and all his motions to those of the great Alexander, and thought they saw in him shadows, as it were, and imitations of that leader’s impetuosity and might in conflicts.Cf. the Demetrius, xli. 3. The other kings, they said, represented Alexander with their purple robes, their body-guards, the inclination of their necks,See the Alexander, iv. 1. and their louder tones in conversation; but Pyrrhus, and Pyrrhus alone, in arms and action.
8.2 Of his knowledge and ability in the field of military tactics and leadership one may get proofs from the writings on these subjects which he left. It is said also that Antigonus, when asked who was the best general, replied, Pyrrhus, if he lives to be old. This verdict of Antigonus applied only to his contemporaries. Hannibal, however, declared that the foremost of all generals in experience and ability was Pyrrhus, that Scipio was second, and he himself third, as I have written in my Life of Scipio.The book containing the Lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus the Elder has been lost.

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