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Headword:
Κάδμος
Adler number: kappa,22
Translated headword: Kadmos, Cadmus
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Son of Pandion, from Miletus, historian, who first (according to some) wrote a book in prose. [He was] a little younger than
Orpheus.[1] He composed the
Founding of Miletus and of all Ionia in 4 books.
[Note] that they say
Cadmus was the first to bring to Greece the alphabet, which the Phoenicians first invented.[2]
Κάδμος, Πανδίονος, Μιλήσιος, ἱστορικός, ὃς πρῶτος κατά τινας συγγραφὴν ἔγραψε καταλογάδην, μικρῷ νεώτερος Ὀρφέως. συνέταξε δὲ κτίσιν Μιλήτου καὶ τῆς ὅλης Ἰωνίας ἐν βιβλίοις δ#. ὅτι τὸν Κάδμον φασὶ πρῶτον ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα κομίσαι τὰ γράμματα, ἅπερ πρῶτοι Φοίνικες ἐφεῦρον.
Notes:
6/5 BC; FGrH 489. Cf.
kappa 21.
[1] It is unclear which figure of this name is meant. See
omicron 654-660.
[2] George the Monk, 75.16-18; cf.
gamma 416.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2002@12:05:33.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 13 February 2002@03:05:50.
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