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Headword:
*ka/dmos
Adler number: kappa,22
Translated headword: Kadmos, Cadmus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Pandion, from Miletus, historian, who first (according to some) wrote a book in prose. [He was] a little younger than Orpheus.[1] He composed the
Founding of Miletus and of all Ionia in 4 books.
They say Cadmus was the first to bring to Greece the alphabet, which the Phoenicians first invented.[2]
Greek Original:*ka/dmos, *pandi/onos, *milh/sios, i(storiko/s, o(\s prw=tos kata/ tinas suggrafh\n e)/graye kataloga/dhn, mikrw=| new/teros *)orfe/ws. sune/tace de\ kti/sin *milh/tou kai\ th=s o(/lhs *)iwni/as e)n bibli/ois d#. o(/ti to\n *ka/dmon fasi\ prw=ton e)s th\n *(ella/da komi/sai ta\ gra/mmata, a(/per prw=toi *foi/nikes e)feu=ron.
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Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; mythology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2002@12:05:33.
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