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|lshtext=<b>Cadmus</b>: i, m., = [[Κάδμος]]>.<br /><b>I</b> Son of the Phœnician [[king]] [[Agenor]], [[brother]] of [[Europa]], [[husband]] of [[Harmonia]], [[father]] of [[Polydorus]], [[Ino]], [[Semele]], Autonoë, and [[Agave]]; [[founder]] of the [[Cadmea]], the [[citadel]] of the Bœotian [[Thebes]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; id. N. D. 3. 19, 48; Ov. M. 3, 14 sq.; id. F. 1, 490; id. P. 4, 10, 55; the [[inventor]] of alphabetic [[writing]], Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 192 sqq. ([[hence]] letters are called Cadmi filiolae atricolores, Aus. Ep. 29; and Cadmi nigellae filiae, id. ib. 21). He and his [[wife]]. [[Harmonia]] were at [[last]] changed [[into]] serpents, Ov. M. 4, 572 sq.; Hor. A. P. 187; cf. Hyg. Fab. 6; 148; 179; 274.—Hence, Cadmi [[soror]], i. e. [[Europa]], Ov. P. 4, 10, 55.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Derivv.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cadmēus, a, um, adj., = [[Καδμεῖος]]>, of or pertaining to [[Cadmus]], Cadmean: [[Thebae]], Prop. 1, 7, 1: juventus, i. e. Thebana, Theban, Stat. Th. 8, 601: [[Dirce]] ([[because]] in the neighborhood of [[Thebes]]), Luc. 3, 175: [[mater]], i. e. [[Agave]], the [[mother]] of [[Pentheus]], Sen. Oedip. 1005: cistae, i. e. of [[Bacchus]] ([[because]] [[Bacchus]] [[was]] the [[grandson]] of [[Cadmus]] by [[Semele]]), id. Herc. Oet. 595: [[Tyros]] ([[because]] [[Cadmus]] came from Phœnicia), Prop. 3 (4), 13, 7.—Also Carthaginian: [[gens]], [[stirps]], [[manus]] = Carthaginiensis, Sil. 1, 6; 1, 106; 17, 582.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Subst.: Cadmēa, ae, f. (sc. arx), the [[citadel]] of [[Thebes]] founded by [[Cadmus]], Nep. Pelop. 1, 2; id. Epam. 10, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cad-mēĭus, a, um, adj., Cadmean: [[genitrix]], i. e. [[Agave]], Stat. Th. 4, 565: [[seges]], i. e. the [[armed]] men [[that]] sprang from the [[dragon]]'s teeth [[sown]] by [[Cadmus]], Val. Fl. 7, 282: [[heros]], i. e. the Theban, [[Polynices]], Stat. Th. 3, 366; so, [[Haemon]], id. 8, 458 and 520.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cadmēïs, ĭdis, f. adj. (acc. Cadmeidem and Cadmeida, Neue, Formenl. 1, 211; 1, 305; voc. Cadmei, ib. 1, 293), = Καδμηΐς, of [[Cadmus]], Cadmean: [[domus]], Ov. M. 4, 545: arx, id. ib. 6, 217: matres, i. e. Theban women, id. ib. 9, 304.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Subst., a [[female]] [[descendant]] of [[Cadmus]]; so of [[Semele]], Ov. M. 3, 287; of [[Ino]], id. F. 6, 553.—Plur. Cadmeïdes, the daughters of [[Cadmus]], [[Agave]], [[Ino]], and Autonoë, Sen. Herc. Fur. 758.—<br /><b>II</b> An [[historian]] of [[Miletus]], said to [[have]] been the earliest [[prose]] [[writer]], Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112; 7, 56, 57, § 205.—<br /><b>III</b> A bloodthirsty [[executioner]] in the [[time]] of Horace, Hor. S. 1, 6, 39; Schol. Crucq.—<br /> A [[mountain]] in [[Caria]], Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 118.