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.
Edition :
Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :
date: The battle with Pantauchus took place "a little while" (10.1) before Pyrrhus' expedition into Macedonia, so 290/89 BC. motive: While Pyrrhus motivation to fight the battle was political, his reasons to fight in the first line was clearly ambition.
Notes :
The actual description of the battle is taken from 7.3-5.
