A.the Cadmeans or ancient inhabitants of Thebes, Il.4.388, Hes. Th.326, Hdt.5.57, etc.: Καδμεία, ἡ, the citadel of Thebes, X.HG6.3.11; also, Pythag. name for eight, Theol.Ar.54: prov., Κ. νίκη a victory involving one's own ruin (from the story of the Σπαρτοί, or that of Polynices and Eteocles), Hdt.1.166, cf. Pl.Lg.641c, Plu.2.488a, Suid. (but = a great victory, Arr.Fr.21 J.); so “Κ. κράτος” AP5.178 (Mel.): metaph., “Κ. παιδεία” Pl. l.c.; Κ. γράμματα the alphabet, supposed to have been brought by K. from Phoenicia, Hdt.5.59. (The spelling Κάσσμος is found on a vase of Rhegium, Roscher Lex.d.Gr.u.Röm.Myth.2(1).842.)
Κάδμος , ὁ, Cadmus, Od.5.333, Hes.Th.937, etc.:—Adj. Καδμεῖος , α, ον, lon. Καδμήιος , η, ον, Cadmean, Hes.Th.940, etc.:—fem. Καδμηίς , ίδος, ἡ, h.Bacch.57, Hes.Op.162, Th.1.12, prob. in Trag.Adesp.177:—poet. Καδμέϊος , Pi.I.3(4).71, S.Ant.1115 (lyr.): Καδμεῖοι, οἱ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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