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Headword:
*kadmei/a
ni/kh
Adler number: kappa,17
Translated headword: Kadmeian victory, Cadmean victory
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is said in reference to those who are victorious to their hurt. Some say that [this is because] after their victory the Thebans were defeated by the Epigonoi; others [say it is because] when Oedipus solved the riddle he married his mother as his prize. It is applied also to deeds which are unprofitable. As he himself said[1] who wrote a history of
Thebes, when Cadmus destroyed the dragon which guarded the spring of Ares, he laboured for Ares for eight years.
*kadmei/a ni/kh: le/getai e)pi\ tw=n e)pi\ kakw=| nikw/ntwn. oi( me\n le/gousin, o(/ti *qhbai=oi nikh/santes u(/steron u(po\ tw=n *)epigo/nwn h(tth/qhsan: oi( de\ o(/ti *oi)di/pous to\ ai)/nigma lu/sas e)/paqlon th\n mhte/ra e)/ghme. ti/qetai kai\ e)pi\ tw=n a)lusitelw=n. w(s de\ au)to\s o( ta\ peri\ *qhbw=n sunta/cas, o(/ti *ka/dmos a)nelw\n to\n th\n *)arei/an krh/nhn throu=nta dra/konta e)qh/teusen *)/arei+ o)ktw\ e)/th.
Notes:
Also in
Photius (
Lexicon kappa11, from
Pausanias the Atticist) and in several of the paroemiographers.
What we call a Pyrrhic victory; cf.
kappa 16,
kappa 18.
[1] Textually corrupt:
Pausanias (see above) preserves the missing name,
Lycus (FGrH 380 F5). See also
Apollodorus,
Library 3.24.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2002@18:26:07.
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