Crossword-Solution: CADMUS
We have 13 clues for the answer “CADMUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AGAVE, father of | 1 answer |
| AUTONOE, father of | 1 answer |
| Founder of Thebes | 1 answer |
| Founder of Thebes, in myth | 1 answer |
| HARMONIA, consort of | 1 answer |
| HARMONIA, husband of | 1 answer |
| He sowed the dragon's teeth. | 1 answer |
| INO, father of | 1 answer |
| Legendary founder of Thebes | 1 answer |
| PENTHEUS, predecessor of | 1 answer |
| SEMELE, father of | 1 answer |
| son of Agenor | 1 answer |
| DRAGON slayer | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEEMAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CADMUS (5)
Art thou not he who coming to the town of Cadmus freed us from the tax we paid To the fell songstress? Nor hadst thou received Prompting from us or been by others schooled; No, by a god inspired (so all men deem, And testify) didst thou renew our life.
Soldiers seemed to spring from the ground, as they did from the sowing of the dragon’s teeth in the days of Cadmus.
Grim war and dread battle destroyed a part of them, some in the land of Cadmus at seven-gated Thebe when they fought for the flocks of Oedipus, and some, when it had brought them in ships over the great sea gulf to Troy for rich-haired Helen’s sake: there death’s end enshrouded a part of them.
Near Cadmus' walls a plain extended lay, Where Thebes' young princes pass'd in sport the day: There the bold coursers bounded o'er the plains, While their great masters held the golden reins.
The back of the letter bore my name, written in Armenian characters; with a trembling hand I broke the seal, and, unfolding the letter, I beheld several lines also written in the letters of Mesroub, the Cadmus of the Armenians.
Quotes with CADMUS (3)
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.""It was probably important to her.
You know, Mac,” Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’and ‘the city burned’.” Machaon responded tersely.
I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until two men, one of whom was called Cadmus (Qatmus) and the other Aghanūn, came from Egypt bringing sixteen letters with which the Greeks wrote. Then one of these two men derived four other letters, also used for writing. Later, another man named Simonides (Simūnidus) derived four additional ones, making twenty-four. It was in those days that Socrates (Suqrātīs) appeared
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2008).