Please help me, i cant remember the word/phrase

[ShroomDr]

Calling all wordsmiths.. Its one word.
Its synonymous with 'taking the long view', 'being able to see beyond the horizon', 'the whole vantage point without the fog of war'.

It some word like 'Pyrrhic victory', referring to 'King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War.

he armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war.
—Plutarch

The word im looking for is 'rooted' from some something similar; some ancient king/leader and either his wanting to, or accomplishment in seeing beyond what others could not.

Google failed me...

 

[Hammerhead]

intuition???Perception??? shat man your making me think and im stoned

 

[touringfunkband]

Prescient or prescience?

 

[rives]

Perspective?

 

[ShroomDr]

the words root is the name of some king/hero/leader...

 

[VerdantGreen]

forbearance ?

 

[schwilly]

Nostradomic?

Just made that up.

Anyways, I was thinking prescience too until I saw that it has to have a name in the root.

 

[Snagglepuss]

yummybud?

 

[billy_big_bud!]

lmfao @ yummy bud........ i was thinking machavelian but it doesnt feel like it fits.

 

[PhatPhreddy420]

Omniscience.......

 

[ZEROorDIE]

clairvoyant?

 

[OverEagerBeaver]

empiric?

1. One who is guided by practical experience rather than precepts or theory.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/empiric

 

[dramamine]

Sisyphean?

 

[delic]

Foresight ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresight

ability to predict or plan for the future
management planning principle

 

[bench warmer]

Please help me, i cant remember the word/phrase

Jungian?

 

[ShroomDr]

Sisyphean?

it is something very similar to this...

In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity. He is also found in Roman mythology.

The word "sisyphean" means "endless and unavailing, as labor or a task"

Replace that king/leader with a different one, and the 'rock and hill' with the 'ability to see whats coming/over the horizon/an omni-viewpoint'.


Was there really a King Foresight?

 

[Useful Idiot]

Google???

 

[longearedfriend]

still haven't found it ?

 

[ShroomDr]

Google???

Google failed me...

no i have not figured it out yet.



Its probably gonna take someone with a Greek or Roman history fascination.

 

[Stoner4Life]

The word im looking for is 'rooted' from some something similar; some ancient king/leader and either his wanting to, or accomplishment in seeing beyond what others could not.

Google failed me...

but Stoner4Life will not...


I believe it's Spivious named after the
world renowned psychic Gary Spivey.