Cadmeans
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Thebans · citizens · people of Cadmus · all the city · citizens of Thebes · ordinary citizen · people of this city · the Cadmeans · the city · the youth of the Cadmeans
spoken of as
1 expressionCitizens of Thebes“Cadmeans”1 mention
Phoenissae (Greek)
for I stopped marshalling the citizens in pairs of companies around the walls, so that I might hear your arbitration between us, by which you persuaded me to admit this man under truce within the walls.
in the texts
Iliad
People of Thebes, encountered banqueting by Tydeus and later organizing the ambush he defeats.
When they had got as far the deep-meadowed and rush-grown banks of the Aesepos, the Achaeans sent Tydeus as their envoy, and he found the Cadmeans gathered in great numbers to a banquet in the house of Eteokles.
but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
He left the Achaeans by the banks of the river Aesopos, and went to the city bearing a message of peace to the Cadmeans;
Phoenissae
The Theban citizenry and defending army, mustered under Eteocles to hold the seven gates against the Argive assault.
and the many heaps of the slain, some from Argive, some from Theban spears, shall cause bitter lamentation in the land of Thebes.
And all the Argives and the people of Cadmus shouted their approval, as though they thought it just.
They rushed to their weapons, but by some lucky forethought the people of Cadmus had sat down under arms;
The Histories
Descendants of Cadmus' settlers in Boeotia, twice expelled by the Argives, the second expulsion occurring under Laodamas.
The Cadmeans had first been expelled from there by the Argives, and these Gephyraeans were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in turn by the Boeotians.
During the rule of this Laodamas son of Eteocles, the Cadmeans were expelled by the Argives and went away to the Encheleis.
Antigone
The civic body of Thebes, commanded by Creon yet represented as privately sympathetic to Antigone.
I would not be silent if I saw ruin, instead of safety, marching upon the citizens.
They say that he does not conduct this business lightly, but whoever performs any of these rites, for him the fate appointed is death by public stoning among the entire city.
For dread of your glance forbids the ordinary citizen to speak such words as would offend your ear.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The Theban populace before whom Oedipus wants his polluted identity displayed.
He cries for some one to unbar the gates and show to all the Cadmeans his father’s slayer, his mother’s—the words must not pass my lips— in order to banish himself from the land and not to put the house under his own curse by waiting here.