| 单词 | cadmean victory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCadmean victory Pertaining to Cadmus, the legendary founder of Thebes in Bœotia, and introducer of the alphabet into Greece. Cadmean victory (Greek Καδμεία νίκη), ‘a victory involving one's own ruin’ (Liddell and Scott); usually associated with Thebes or the Thebans. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > ultimate success or victory > involving one's own ruin Cadmean victory1603 Pyrrhic victory1675 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 12 A Cadmian victorie, that is to say, which turneth to the detriment and losse of the winner. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 146 Made them like the Cadmean Offspring, to do immediate Execution upon themselves. 1762 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 430/2 Our conquests would prove Cadmean victories. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 147 The cup Which Agave lifted up In the wierd Cadmæan forest. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 50 Dragon warriors from Cadmean teeth. Cadmean victory Cadmean victory, Pyrrhic victory: see those words. moral victory: see moral victory n. at moral adj. Compounds 2.extracted from victoryn.< as lemmas |
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