Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa (who was a very beautiful child), were at play together near the seashore in their father's kingdom of Phoenicia.
Just then, there came a splendid butterfly, fluttering along the meadow; and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix set off in pursuit of it, crying out that it was a flower with wings.
The Thebans sprung from the Dragon's teeth sown by
Cadmus.
OEDIPUS My children, latest born to
Cadmus old, Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands Branches of olive filleted with wool?
MESSENGER Attend all ye who dwell beside the halls Of
Cadmus and Amphion.
When he was in this plight, Ino daughter of
Cadmus, also called Leucothea, saw him.
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.
So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward EVE Address'd his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare, Circular base of rising foulds, that tour'd Fould above fould a surging Maze, his Head Crested aloft, and Carbuncle his Eyes; With burnisht Neck of verdant Gold, erect Amidst his circling Spires, that on the grass Floted redundant: pleasing was his shape, And lovely, never since of Serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in ILLYRIA chang'd HERMIONE and
CADMUS, or the God In EPIDAURUS; nor to which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, or CAPITOLINE was seen, Hee with OLYMPIAS, this with her who bore SCIPIO the highth of ROME.
Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funeral, and he beat all the people of
Cadmus. The son of Tydeus was Euryalus's second, cheering him on and hoping heartily that he would win.
As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are; Hermes,
Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind's ministers.
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which
Cadmus invented.
"One is uninhabited, and I heard that the people on the other had gone off to
Cadmus Island.