§20.10.1διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἡττήθη ὁ Πύρρος κατὰ κράτος· οὐ γὰρ στρατιά τις φαύλη καὶ ἀνάσκητος ἦν αὐτῷ, ἀλλʼ ἡ κρατίστη τῶν τότε οὐσῶν ἐν Ἕλλησι καὶ πλείστους ἀγωνισαμένη πολέμους· οὐδὲ πλῆθος ἀνδρῶν τῶν τότε παραταξαμένων ὀλίγον, ἀλλʼ ὅσον καὶ τριπλάσιον εἶναι, οὐδὲ στρατηγὸς τῶν ἐπιτυχόντων τις, ἀλλʼ ὃν ἅπαντες ὁμολογοῦσι μέγιστον γενέσθαι τῶν κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἡλικίαν ἀκμασάντων στρατηγῶν, §20.10.2οὐδὲ τόπου φύσις ἄνισος οὔτʼ ἐπικουρίας τοῖς ἑτέροις ἄφιξις αἰφνίδιος οὔτʼ ἄλλη τις συμφορὰ καὶ πρόφασις ἀπροσδόκητος ἐπιπεσοῦσα συνέτριψε τὰ Πύρρου πράγματα, ἀλλʼ ὁ τῆς ἀσεβηθείσης θεᾶς χολός, ὃν οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἠγνόει Πύρρος, ὡς Πρόξενος ὁ συγγραφεὺς ἱστορεῖ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Πύρρος ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις ὑπομνήμασι γράφει.
For this reason Pyrrhus was also decisively defeated by the Romans; for he did not possess some weak and untrained army, but the strongest of those then existing among the Greeks and one that had fought the most wars; nor was the multitude of the men then drawn up in battle-array small, but so great as to be even threefold; nor was his general one of the ordinary sort, but one whom everyone agrees was the greatest of the generals who flourished in the same age; nor did an unfavorable nature of the terrain, nor a sudden arrival of reinforcements for the other side, nor any other misfortune and unexpected circumstance falling upon him shatter the fortunes of Pyrrhus, but the wrath of the goddess who had been treated with impiety, of which Pyrrhus himself was not ignorant, as Proxenus the historian relates and Pyrrhus himself writes in his own memoirs.