Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)

part in the war, while those old men too who had been forced by

necessity to take up arms, were relieved by the new comers, who took their places in the line of battle against the enemy.

XXX. These reinforcements piqued Pyrrhus into making several more attempts to take the city, in which however he was repulsed and wounded. He now retired, and began to plunder the country, pro...