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Cadmean victory
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Cadmean victory
–noun
a victory attained at as great a loss to the victor as to the vanquished.
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1595–1605
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Cadmean victory
1603, 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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