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What does Cadmean mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to Cadmus, a mythical prince of Thebes, said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet.
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In Greek mythology, the Teumessian fox or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught.
In any event Cadmean Thebes identified itself with the religious capital of old Thebes in Egypt.
Yet he who thought he ought to have a Cadmean victory, carried on his conquest.
The circular and isolated hill upon which the present town stands will recall to his mind the ancient features of the Cadmean citadel.
Publicly and privately, the Charlestonians were boasting over their late Cadmean victory.
Ben Franklin started the Cadmean Chautauqua and Lyceum Association and later became the president of the Associated Chautauqua of America.

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