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Cadmean victory

 
noun
a victory attained at as great a loss to the victor as to the vanquished.

Origin:
1595–1605
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Cadmean victory (ˈkædmɪən)
 
—n
another name for Pyrrhic victory

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Cadmean victory
c.1600, from Gk. Kadmeia nike "victory involving one's own ruin" [Liddell & Scott], from Cadmus (Gk. Kadmos), legendary founder of Thebes in Boeotia and bringer of the alphabet to Greece. Probably a reference to the story of Cadmus and the "Sown-Men," who fought each other till only a handful were left
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alive. Cf. Pyrrhic (1).
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