Associations to the word «Cadmus»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
CADMUS, proper noun. (Greek mythology) A Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor of Tyre. Was sent by his royal parents to seek and return his sister Europa after being abducted from Phoenicia by Zeus. Credited with founding Greek city of Thebes and inventing Greek alphabet.
Dictionary definition
CADMUS, noun. (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.