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
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.