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Headword:
*ka/dmos
Adler number: kappa,21
Translated headword: Kadmos, Cadmus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Milesian, inventor of the alphabet.[1]
In an epigram of
Zeno: "but if [your] fatherland [is] Phoenician, what reproach [is there]? It is also [the home of] that Cadmus, from whom Hellas has the written page."[2]
*ka/dmos: o( *milh/sios, eu(reth\s tw=n gramma/twn. e)n e)pigra/mmati *zh/nwnos: ei) de\ pa/tra *foi/nissa, ti/s o( fqo/nos; o(\n kai\ o( *ka/dmos kei=nos, a)f' ou(= grapta\n *(ella\s e)/xei seli/da.
Notes:
[1] cf.
kappa 22.
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 7.30 (=
Greek Anthology 7.117.5-6); an epigram
about Zeno (a Cypriot; from Citium (
Kition), a Phoenician city on the island's southeast coast; cf.
kappa 1684,
kappa 1685), by
Zenodotus. On this eulogy for the founder of philosophical Stoicism (cf.
zeta 79), see Gow and Page, vol. I (198-199), vol. II (557-558), and another extract at
alpha 4387.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: aetiology; biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; mythology; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2002@19:14:36.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords) on 13 February 2002@03:18:58.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 18 January 2013@04:45:32.
Catharine Roth (coding, tweak) on 20 January 2013@01:48:42.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 23 July 2022@18:35:19.
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