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See caddis1. Cadiz lace. See lace. Cadmean (kad-me'an), a. [L. Cadmeus, Cad meius, Gr. Καδμεῖος, relating to Κάδμος, L. Cad mus.] Relating to Cadmus, a legendary hero, founder of Thebes in Bœotia, who is said to have introduced into Greece, from Phenic i a, the sixteen simple letters of the Greek alphabet, α, β, γ, δ, ε, ι, κ, λ, μ, υ, ο, π, ρ, σ, τ, υ, which are therefore called Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a proverbial phrase for a victory in which the victors suffer as much as the vanquished: perhaps from the myth of the Bœotian dragon slain by Cadmus, and the threatened attack upon him by the armed men who sprang from its teeth, which he averted by inducing them to kill one another, excepting five, who aided him in founding Thebes; or from the contest for the sov IMG:content-2901.png:[blocks in formation] relating to property without a master,