Pyrrhic ('pir-ik) adjective
Achieved at excessive cost (a Pyrrhic victory); also : costly to the point of negating or outweighing expected benefits (a great but Pyrrhic act of ingenuity)
Etymology: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus who sustained heavy losses in defeating the Romans
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...we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.
The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where
we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay
another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the
center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with
all the world.
