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Cadmean victory

 
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–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 
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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