(adj.adj.adj.Subst.) : Cadmus, i, m., = Κάδμος.
* Son of the Phoenician king Agenor, brother of Europa, husband of Harmonia, father of Polydorus, Ino, Semele, Autonoë, and Agave; founder of the Cadmea, the citadel of the Boeotian Thebes, Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; id. N. D. 3. 19, 48; Ov. M. 3, 14 sq.; id. F. 1, 490; id. P. 4, 10, 55; the inventor of alphabetic writing, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 192 sqq. (hence letters are called Cadmi filiolae atricolores, Aus. Ep. 29; and Cadmi nigellae filiae,id. ib. 21). He and his wife. Harmonia were at last changed into serpents, Ov. M. 4, 572 sq.; Hor. A. P. 187; cf. Hyg. Fab. 6; 148; 179; 274.—Hence, Cadmi soror,i. e. Europa,Ov. P. 4, 10, 55.
* Derivv.
* An historian of Miletus, said to have been the earliest prose writer, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112; 7, 56, 57, § 205.
* A bloodthirsty executioner in the time of Horace, Hor. S. 1, 6, 39; Schol. Crucq.
* A mountain in Caria, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 118.
* Cadmēïs, ĭdis, f.adj. (acc. Cadmeidem and Cadmeida, Neue, Formenl. 1, 211; 1, 305; voc. Cadmei, ib. 1, 293), = Καδμηί̈ς, of Cadmus, Cadmean: domus,Ov. M. 4, 545: arx,id. ib. 6, 217: matres,i. e. Theban women,id. ib. 9, 304.
* Subst., a female descendant of Cadmus; so of Semele, Ov. M. 3, 287; of Ino, id. F. 6, 553.—Plur. Cadmeïdes, the daughters of Cadmus, Agave, Ino, and Autonoë, Sen. Herc. Fur. 758.

Male Personal name
Confirmed occurences in the Roman Empire:

• Cadmus (Masc), ref: PIR C 0007 | PIR ID3059

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