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Καδμείαν (Kadmeian)

Καδμείαν is an Ancient Greek form of Καδμεῖος, meaning “Cadmean — of Cadmus, i.e. Theban”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 587: ἀφρῷ καταστάζοντα Καδμείαν χθόνα.

Pindar, Isthmean 4.53: Θηβᾶν ἀπὸ Καδμεϊᾶν μορφὰν βραχύς, ψυχὰν δʼ ἄκαμπτος, προσπαλαίσων ἦλθʼ ἀνὴρ

Strabo, Geography 3.4.15: … άρεστι τὸ φαρμακῶδες, καθάπερ ἄλλοις πολλοῖς. ἐπεί, φησὶν ὁ Ποσειδώνιος, καὶ ὁ Κύπριος χαλκὸς μόνος φέρει τὴν καδμείαν λίθον καὶ τὸ χαλκανθὲς καὶ τὸ σπόδιον. ἴδιον δʼ εἴρηκεν Ἰβηρίᾳ ὁ Ποσειδώνιος καὶ τὸ τὰς κορώνας μελαίνας εἶνα …

All forms of Καδμεῖος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.