Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Phoenician prince who killed a dragon and sowed its teeth, from which sprang up an army of men who fought one another until only five survived. With these five men Cadmus founded the city of Thebes.
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- proper noun Greek mythology A
Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor ofTyre . Was sent by his royal parents to seek and return his sisterEuropa after being abducted fromPhoenicia byZeus . Credited with founding Greek city ofThebes and inventing Greek alphabet.
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- noun (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
Etymologies
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Examples
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For when Simmias mentioned his objection, I quite imagined that no answer could be given to him, and therefore I was surprised at finding that his argument could not sustain the first onset of yours; and not impossibly the other, whom you call Cadmus, may share a similar fate.
Phædo. Paras. 400-499 Plato 1909
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For when Simmias mentioned his objection, I quite imagined that no answer could be given to him, and therefore I was surprised at finding that this argument could not sustain the first onset of yours, and not impossibly the other, whom you call Cadmus, may share a similar fate.
The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions, by B. Jowett. Plato 1871
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When we find that the name Cadmus is simply the Semitic word _kedem_, the east, and notice all this mythical entourage, we see that this legend is but a lightly veiled account of the local source and progress of the light of day, and of the advantages men derive from it.
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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What loiterer at the gates will call Cadmus from the house, Agenor's son, who left the city of Sidon and founded here the town of Thebes?
The Bacchantes 2008
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What loiterer at the gates will call Cadmus from the house, Agenor's son, who left the city of Sidon and founded here the town of Thebes?
The Bacchantes 2008
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Now, the really interesting thing is is organisation is called Cadmus, and their manager is Vic Van Doon.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Dragon's Island - Jack Williamson Blue Tyson 2007
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And yet the story of the Sidonian Cadmus, which is so improbable, has been readily believed, and also innumerable other tales.
Laws 2006
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If Mr. Spender gives Whitman a book called Cadmus the scholar will easily identify it as Calamus.
Taking Sides Knights, L.C. 1975
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Bochart says that he was called Cadmus, because he came from the eastern part of Phœnicia, which is called in
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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He supposes Cadmus to have been a fugitive Canaanite, who fled from the face of Joshua: and that he was called Cadmus from being a Cadmonite, which is a family mentioned by
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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