古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
皮 拉 斯 王 之 死

in 272 bc, king pyrrhus invaded argos, where one side in the civil war there had requested him to intervene. one night, with the help of the city's traitors, pyrrhus entered argos with his army by stealth. the people of argos hurriedly set up a defence.

at dawn, pyrrhus saw a bronze statue of a bull fighting a wolf. this brought to mind a prophecy that he had heard years before, which was that he would die on the day he saw a wolf and a bull fighting. so pyrrhus tried to get out of the city. however, there were so many of his men, some on horses and elephants, pushing to get in that he could not get out. during this melee, an old woman threw a tile down from her roof, and it happened to hit pyrrhus on the neck. stunned, pyrrhus fell off his horse, and an enemy cut off his head.

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