I sure hope your "solution" works.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch, themgmt.

Plutarch's seen some tenacious overlords in his time, and he says there are none fiercer than these olicarps.

On the other hand, no-one who's ever tangled with Plutarch has ever survived to tell the tale. Plutarch wrote the book on all his battles. You may have heard of it: "Plutarch's Many Lives". They say he has more lives than a cat.