where the Appian road was terminated. It was founded by Diomedes
after the Trojan war, or, according to Strabo, by Theseus, with
a Cretan colony. The Romans generally embarked at Brundusium for
Greece. It is famous for the birth of the poet Pacuvius and the
death of Virgil, and likewise for its harbour, which is capacious
and sheltered by the land, and by a small island at the entrance,
against the fury of the winds and waves. Little remains of the
ancient city, and even its harbour has now been choked up by the
negligence of the inhabitants. _Justin_, bk. 3, ch. 4; bk. 12, ch. 2.
――_Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 1, ch. 24.――_Cicero_,
_Letters to Atticus_, bk. 4, ltr. 1.
=Brutidius=, a man dragged to prison in Juvenal’s age, on suspicion of
his favouring Sejanus. _Juvenal_, satire 10, li. 82.
=Brutii=, a people in the furthest parts of Italy, who were originally
shepherds of the Lucanians, but revolted, and went in quest of a
settlement. They received the name of _Brutii_, from their stupidity
and cowardice in submitting, without opposition, to Annibal in
the second Punic war. They were ever after held in the greatest
disgrace, and employed in every servile work. _Justin_, bk. 23,
ch. 9.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Diodorus_, bk. 16.
=Brutŭlus=, a Samnite, who killed himself, upon being delivered to the
Romans for violating a treaty. _Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 39.
=Brutus Lucius Junius=, a son of Marcus Junius and Tarquinia, second
daughter of Tarquin Priscus. The father, with his eldest son, were
murdered by Tarquin the Proud, and Lucius, unable to revenge their
death, pretended to be insane. The artifice saved his life; he was
called _Brutus_ for his stupidity, which he, however, soon after
showed to be feigned. When Lucretia killed herself, B.C. 509, in
consequence of the brutality of Tarquin, Brutus snatched the dagger
from the wound, and swore, upon the reeking blade, immortal hatred
to the royal family. His example animated the Romans. The Tarquins
were proscribed by a decree of the senate, and the royal authority
vested in the hands of consuls chosen from patrician families.
Brutus, in his consular office, made the people swear they never
would again submit to kingly authority; but the first who violated
their oath were in his own family. His sons conspired with the
Tuscan ambassador to restore the Tarquins; and when discovered, they
were tried and condemned before their father, who himself attended
at their execution. Some time after, in a combat that was fought
between the Romans and Tarquins, Brutus engaged with Aruns, and
so fierce was the attack that they pierced one another at the same
time. The dead body was brought to Rome, and received as in triumph;
a funeral oration was spoken over it, and the Roman matrons showed
their grief by mourning a year for the father of the republic.
_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 2.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 56; bk. 2, ch. 1, &c.
――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bks. 4 & 5.――_Cornelius Nepos_,
_Atticus_, ch. 8.――_Eutropius_ on _Tarquin_.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 6, li. 818.――_Plutarch_, _Brutus_ & _Cæsar_.――――Marcus Junius,
father of Cæsar’s murderer, wrote three books on civil law. He
followed the party of Marius, and was conquered by Pompey. After
the death of Sylla, he was besieged in Mutina by Pompey, to whom he
surrendered, and by whose orders he was put to death. He had married
Servilia, Cato’s sister, by whom he had a son and two daughters.
_Cicero_, _On Oratory_, ch. 55.――_Plutarch_, _Brutus_.――――His son
of the same name by Servilia, was lineally descended from Junius
Brutus, who expelled the Tarquins from Rome. He seemed to inherit
the republican principles of his great progenitor, and in the
civil wars joined himself to the side of Pompey, though he was his
father’s murderer, only because he looked upon him as more just and
patriotic in his claims. At the battle of Pharsalia, Cæsar not only
spared the life of Brutus, but he made him one of his most faithful
friends. He, however, forgot the favour because Cæsar aspired to
tyranny. He conspired with many of the most illustrious citizens
of Rome against the tyrant, and stabbed him in Pompey’s Basilica.
The tumult which this murder occasioned was great; the conspirators
fled to the capitol, and by proclaiming freedom and liberty to the
populace, they re-established tranquillity in the city. Antony, whom
Brutus, contrary to the opinion of his associates, refused to seize,
gained ground in behalf of his friend Cæsar, and the murderers were
soon obliged to leave Rome. Brutus retired into Greece, where he
gained himself many friends by his arms, as well as by persuasion,
and he was soon after pursued thither by Antony, whom young Octavius
accompanied. A battle was fought at Philippi. Brutus, who commanded
the right wing of the republican army, defeated the enemy; but
Cassius, who had the care of the left, was overpowered, and as he
knew not the situation of his friend, and grew desperate, he ordered
one of his freedmen to run him through. Brutus deeply deplored
his fall, and in the fulness of his grief called him the last of
the Romans. In another battle, the wing which Brutus commanded
obtained a victory; but the other was defeated, and he found himself
surrounded by the soldiers of Antony. He, however, made his escape,
and soon after fell upon his sword, B.C. 42. Antony honoured him
with a magnificent funeral. Brutus is not less celebrated for his
literary talents, than his valour in the field. When he was in the
camp, the greatest part of his time was employed in reading and
writing; and the day which preceded one of his most bloody battles,
while the rest of his army was under continual apprehensions, Brutus
calmly spent his hours till the evening, in writing an epitome of
Polybius. He was fond of imitating the austere virtues of Cato, and
in reading the histories of nations he imbibed those principles of
freedom which were so eminently displayed in his political career.
He was intimate with Cicero, to whom he would have communicated
his conspiracy, had he not been apprehensive of his great timidity.
He severely reprimanded him in his letters for joining the side of
Octavius, who meditated the ruin of the republic. Plutarch mentions
that Cæsar’s ghost made its appearance to Brutus in his tent, and
told him that he would meet him at Philippi. Brutus married Portia
the daughter of Cato, who killed herself by swallowing burning coals
when she heard the fate of her husband. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Atticus_.
――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 48.――_Plutarch_, _Brutus_, &c.; _Cæsar_,
ch. 1.――_Florus_, bk. 4.――――Decimus Junius Albinus, one of Cæsar’s
murderers, who, after the battle of Mutina, was deserted by the
legions, with which he wished to march against Antony. He was put to
death by Antony’s orders, though consul elect.――――Junius, one of the
first tribunes of the people. _Plutarch._――――One of Carbo’s generals.
=Bryas=, a general of the Argives against Sparta, put to death by a
woman, to whom he had offered violence. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 20.
――――A general in the army of Xerxes. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 72.
=Bryaxis=, a marble sculptor, who assisted in making the Mausoleum.
_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 40.
=Bryce=, a daughter of Danaus by Polyxo. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Brygres=, a people of Thrace, afterwards called Phryges. _Strabo_,
bk. 7.
=Brygri=, a people of Macedonia, conquered by Mardonius. _Herodotus_,
bk. 6, ch. 45.
=Brysea=, a town of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 20.
=Bubacēne=, a town of Asia. _Curtius_, bk. 5.
=Bubāces=, a eunuch of Darius, &c. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 11.
=Bubăris=, a Persian who married the daughter of Amyntas, against whom
he had been sent with an army. _Justin_, bk. 7, ch. 13.
=Bubastiăcus=, one of the mouths of the Nile.
=Bubastis=, a city of Egypt, in the eastern parts of the Delta, where
cats were held in great veneration, because Diana Bubastis, who is
the chief deity of the place, is said to have transformed herself
into a cat when the gods fled into Egypt. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, chs.
59, 137, & 154.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 690.
=Bubăsus=, a country of Caria, whence _Bubasides_ applied to the
natives. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 643.
=Bubon=, an inland city of Lycia. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 27.
=Bucephăla=, a city of India near the Hydaspes, built by Alexander in
honour of his favourite horse Bucephalus. _Curtius_, bk. 9, ch. 3.
――_Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 8.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.
=Bucephălus=, a horse of Alexander’s, whose head resembled that of
a bull, whence his name (βους κεφαλος, _bovis caput_). Alexander
was the only one who could mount on his back, and he always knelt
down to take up his master. He was present in an engagement in Asia,
where he received a heavy wound, and hastened immediately out of the
battle, and dropped down dead as soon as he had set down the king in
a safe place. He was 30 years old when he died, and Alexander built
a city which he called after his name. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_.
――_Curtius._――_Arrian_, bk. 5, ch. 3.――_Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 42.
=Buciliānus=, one of Cæsar’s murderers. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_,
ch. 14.
=Bucolĭca=, a sort of poem which treats of the care of the flocks, and
of the pleasures and occupations of the rural life, with simplicity
and elegance. The most famous pastoral writers of antiquity are
Moschus, Bion, Theocritus, and Virgil. The invention of Bucolics, or
pastoral poetry, is attributed to a shepherd of Sicily.
=Bucolĭcum=, one of the mouths of the Nile, situate between the
Sebennytican and Mendesian mouths, and called by Strabo, Phatniticum.
_Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 17.
=Bucolion=, a king of Arcadia, after Lais. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 5.
――――A son of Laomedon and the nymph Calybe.――――A son of Hercules and
Praxithea. He was also called Bucolus.――――A son of Lycaon king of
Arcadia. _Apollodorus_, bks. 2 & 3.
=Bucŏlus=, a son of Hercules and Marse.――――A son of Hippocoon.
_Apollodorus_, bks. 2 & 3.
=Budii=, a nation of Media. _Herodotus._
=Budīni=, a people of Scythia. _Herodotus._
=Budōrum=, a promontory of Salamis. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 94.
=Bulbus=, a Roman senator, remarkable for his meanness. _Cicero_,
_Against Verres_.
=Bulis=, a town of Phocis, built by a colony from Doris, near the sea,
above the bay of Corinth. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 37.――――A Spartan
given up to Xerxes, to atone for the offence which his countrymen
had done in putting the king’s messengers to death. _Herodotus_,
bk. 7, ch. 134, &c.
=Bullatius=, a friend of Horace to whom the poet addressed, bk. 1,
ltr. 11, in consequence of his having travelled over part of Asia.
=Bullis=, a town of Illyricum, near the sea, south of Apollonia.
_Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 7; bk. 44, ch. 30.
=Bumellus=, a river of Assyria. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 9.
=Bunea=, a surname of Juno.
=Bunus=, a son of Mercury and Alcidamea, who obtained the government
of Corinth when Ætes went to Colchis. He built a temple to Juno.
_Pausanias_, bk. 2, chs. 3 & 4.
=Bupălus=, a statuary of Clazomenæ. _See:_ Anthermus.
=Buphăgus=, a son of Japetus and Thornax killed by Diana, whose virtue
he had attempted. A river of Arcadia bears his name. _Pausanias_,
bk. 8, ch. 24.――――A surname of Hercules, given him on account of his
gluttony.
=Buphŏnia=, a festival in honour of Jupiter at Athens, where an ox was
immolated. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 24.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_,
bk. 8, ch. 3.
=Buprāsium=, a city, country, and river of Elis. _Homer._
=Bura=, a daughter of Jupiter, or, according to others, of Ion and
Helice, from whom _Bura_ or _Buris_, once a flourishing city in the
bay of Corinth, received its name. This city was destroyed by the
sea. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 293.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7,
ch. 25.――_Strabo_, bks. 1 & 8.――_Diodorus_, bk. 15.
=Buraicus=, an epithet applied to Hercules, from his temple near Bura.
――――A river of Achaia. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 25.
=Burrhus Afranius=, a chief of the pretorian guards, put to death by
Nero.――――A brother-in-law of the emperor Commodus.
=Bursa=, a capital city of Bithynia, supposed to have been called
Prusa, from its founder Prusias. _Strabo_, bk. 12.
=Bursia=, a town of Babylonia. _Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 13.
=Busa=, a woman of Apulia who entertained 1000 Romans after the battle
of Cannæ. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 4, ch. 8.
=Busæ=, a nation of Media. _Herodotus_, bk. 1.
=Busīris=, a king of Egypt, son of Neptune and Libya, or Lysianassa,
who sacrificed all foreigners to Jupiter with the greatest cruelty.
When Hercules visited Egypt, Busiris carried him to the altar bound
hand and foot. The hero soon disentangled himself, and offered the
tyrant, his son Amphidamas, and the ministers of his cruelty, on
the altar. Many Egyptian princes have borne the same name. One of
them built a town called _Busiris_, ♦in the middle of the Delta,
where Isis had a famous temple. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, chs. 59 & 61.
――_Strabo_, bk. 17.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 132;
_Heroides_, poem 9, li. 69.――_Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Virgil_,
_Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 5.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.
♦ extraneous ‘and’ removed
=Buta=, a town of Achaia. _Diodorus_, bk. 20.
=Buteo=, a surname of Marcus Fabius. _Livy_, bk. 30, ch. 26.――――A
Roman orator. _Seneca._
=Butes=, one of the descendants of Amycus king of the Bebryces, very
expert in the combat of the cestus. He came to Sicily, where he was
received by Lycaste, a beautiful harlot, by whom he had a son called
Eryx. Lycaste, on account of her beauty, was called Venus; hence
Eryx is often called the son of Venus.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5,
li. 372.――――One of the Argonauts. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――A
Trojan slain by Camilla. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 690.――――A
son of Boreas who built Naxos. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.――――A son of Pandion
and Zeuxippe, priest of Minerva and Neptune. He married Chthonia
daughter of Erechtheus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 14, &c.――――An
armbearer to Anchises, and afterwards to Ascanius. Apollo assumed
his shape when he descended from heaven to encourage Ascanius to
fight. Butes was killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 647;
bk. 12, li. 632.――――A governor of Darius, besieged by Conon the
Athenian.
=Buthrōtum=, now _Butrinto_, a seaport town of Epirus, opposite
Corcyra, visited by Æneas, in his way from Troy to Italy. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 293.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1.
=Buthrōtus=, a river in Italy, near Locri.
=Buthyreus=, a noble statuary, disciple to Myron. _Pliny_, bk. 34,
ch. 8.
=Butoa=, an island in the Mediterranean, near Crete. _Pliny_, bk. 4,
ch. 12.
=Butorĭdes=, an historian who wrote concerning the pyramids. _Pliny_,
bk. 36, ch. 12.
=Butos=, a town of Egypt, where there was a temple of Apollo and Diana,
and an oracle of Latona. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, chs. 59 & 63.
=Butuntum=, an inland town of Apulia. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 11.
=Butus=, a son of Pandion.
=Buzȳges=, an Athenian who first ploughed with harnessed oxen.
Demophoon gave him the Palladium, with which Diomedes had entrusted
him to be carried to Athens. _Polyænus_, bk. 1, ch. 5.
=Byblesia= and =Bybassia=, a country of Caria. _Herodotus_, bk. 1,
ch. 174.
=Byblia=, a name of Venus.
=Byblii=, a people of Syria. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Byblis=, a daughter of Miletus and Cyanea. She fell in love with
her brother Caunus, and when he refused to gratify her passion, she
destroyed herself. Some say that Caunus became enamoured of her,
and fled from his country to avoid incest; and others report that he
fled from his sister’s importunities, who sought him all over Lycia
and Caria, and at last sat down all bathed in tears, and was changed
into a fountain of the same name. _Ovid_, _de Ars Amatoria_, bk. 1,
li. 284; _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 451.――_Hyginus_, fable 243.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 5.――――A small island in the Mediterranean.
=Byblus=, a town of Syria, not far from the sea, where Adonis had a
temple. _Strabo_, bk. 16.
=Bylliones=, a people of Illyricum.
=Byrrhus=, a robber, famous for his dissipation. _Horace_, bk. 1,
satire 4, li. 69.
=Byrsa=, a citadel in the middle of Carthage, on which was the temple
of Æsculapius. Asdrubal’s wife burnt it when the city was taken.
When Dido came to Africa, she bought of the inhabitants as much
land as could be encompassed by a bull’s hide. After the agreement,
she cut the hide in small thongs, and inclosed a large piece of
territory, on which she built a citadel which she called Byrsa
(Βυρσα, _a hide_). _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 371.――_Strabo_,
bk. 17.――_Justin_, bk. 18, ch. 5.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 15.――_Livy_,
bk. 34, ch. 62.
=Byzacium=, a country of Africa.
=Byzantium=, a town situate on the Thracian Bosphorus, founded by a
colony of Megara, under the conduct of Byzas, 658 years before the
christian era. Paterculus says it was founded by the Milesians, and
by the Lacedæmonians according to Justin, and according to Ammianus
by the Athenians. The pleasantness and convenience of its situation
were observed by Constantine the Great, who made it the capital of
the eastern Roman empire, A.D. 328, and called it Constantinopolis.
A number of Greek writers, who have deserved or usurped the name of
_Byzantine historians_, flourished at Byzantium, after the seat of
the empire had been translated thither from Rome. Their works, which
more particularly relate to the time in which they flourished, and
are seldom read but by those who wish to form an acquaintance with
the revolutions of the lower empire, were published in one large
collection, in 36 vols., folio, 1648, &c., at Paris, and recommended
themselves by the notes and supplements of du Fresne and du Cange.
They were likewise printed at Venice, 1729, in 28 vols., though
perhaps this edition is not so valuable as that of the French.
_Strabo_, bk. 1.――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 15.――_Cornelius Nepos_,
_Pausanias_, _Alcibiades_, & _Timotheus_.――_Justin_, bk. 9, ch. 1.
――_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 12, chs. 62 & 63.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
――_Marcellinus_, bk. 22, ch. 8.
=Byzas=, a son of Neptune king of Thrace, from whom it is said
Byzantium receives its name. _Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Byzeres=, a people of Pontus, between Cappadocia and Colchis.
_Dionysius Periegetes._――_Flaccus_, bk. 5, li. 153.
=Byzes=, a celebrated artist in the age of Astyages. _Pausanias_,
bk. 5, ch. 10.
=Byzia=, a town in the possession of the kings of Thrace, hated by
swallows, on account of the horrible crimes of Tereus. _Pliny_,
bk. 4, ch. 11.
C
=Caanthus=, a son of Oceanus and Tethys. He was ordered by his father
to seek his sister Malia, whom Apollo had carried away, and he burnt
in revenge the ravisher’s temple near the ♦Isthmus. He was killed
for this impiety by the god, and a monument was raised to his memory.
_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 10.
♦ ‘Ithmus’ replaced with ‘Isthmus’
=Cabades=, a king of Persia, &c.
=Cabăla=, a place of Sicily where the Carthaginians were conquered by
Dionysius. _Diodorus_, bk. 15.
=Cabāles=, a people of Africa. _Herodotus._
=Cabalii=, a people of Asia Minor. _Herodotus._
=Caballīnus=, a clear fountain on mount Helicon, sacred to the muses,
and called also _Hippocrene_, as raised from the ground by the foot
of Pegasus. _Persius._
=Caballīnum=, a town of the Ædui, now _Chalons_, on the Saone. _Cæsar_,
_Gallic War_, ch. 42.
=Caballio=, a town of Gaul.
=Cabarnos=, a deity worshipped at Paros. His priests were called
Cabarni.
=Cabassus=, a town of Cappadocia.――――A village near Tarsus.
=Cabīra=, a wife of Vulcan, by whom she had three sons.――――A town of
Paphlagonia.
=Cabīri=, certain deities held in the greatest veneration at Thebes,
Lemnos, Macedonia, and Phrygia, but more particularly in the islands
of Samothrace and Imbros. The number of these deities is uncertain.
Some say there were only two, Jupiter and Bacchus; others mention
three, and some four, Aschieros, Achiochersa, Achiochersus, and
Camillus. It is unknown where their worship was first established;
yet Phœnicia seems to be the place according to the authority of
Sanchoniathon, and from thence it was introduced into Greece by the
Pelasgi. The festivals or mysteries of the Cabiri were celebrated
with the greatest solemnity at Samothrace, where all the ancient
heroes and princes were generally initiated, as their power seemed
to be great in protecting persons from shipwreck and storms. The
obscenities which prevailed in the celebration have obliged the
authors of every country to pass over them in silence, and say that
it was unlawful to reveal them. These deities are often confounded
with the Corybantes, Anaces, Dioscuri, &c., and, according to
Herodotus, Vulcan was their father. This author mentions the
sacrilege which Cambyses committed in entering their temple, and
turning to ridicule their sacred mysteries. They were supposed to
preside over metals. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 51.――_Strabo_, bk. 10,
&c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 22, &c.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_,
bk. 1.
=Cabiria=, a surname of Ceres.――――The festivals of the Cabiri. _See:_
Cabiri.
=Cabūra=, a fountain of Mesopotamia, where Juno bathed. _Pliny_,
bk. 31, ch. 3.
=Cabūrus=, a chief of the Helvii. _Cæsar._
=Caca=, a goddess among the Romans, sister to Cacus, who is said to
have discovered to Hercules where her brother had concealed his oxen.
She presided over the excrements of the body. The vestals offered
sacrifices in her temple. _Lactantius [Placidus]_, bk. 1, ch. 20.
=Cachăles=, a river of Phocis. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 32.
=Cacus=, a famous robber, son of Vulcan and Medusa, represented as a
three-headed monster, and as vomiting flames. He resided in Italy,
and the avenues of his cave were covered with human bones. He
plundered the neighbouring country; and when Hercules returned
from the conquest of Geryon, Cacus stole some of his cows, and
dragged them backwards into his cave to prevent discovery. Hercules
departed without perceiving the theft; but his oxen having lowed,
were answered by the cows in the cave of Cacus, and the hero became
acquainted with the loss he had sustained. He ran to the place,
attacked Cacus, squeezed and strangled him in his arms, though
vomiting fire and smoke. Hercules erected an altar to Jupiter
Servator, in commemoration of his victory; and an annual festival
was instituted by the inhabitants in honour of the hero, who had
delivered them from such a public calamity. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 1,
li. 551.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 194.――_Propertius_, bk. 4,
poem 10.――_Juvenal_, satire 5, li. 125.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 7.
――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.
=Cacūthis=, a river of India, flowing into the Ganges. _Arrian_,
_Indica_.
=Cacyparis=, a river of Sicily.
=Cadi=, a town of Phrygia. _Strabo_, bk. 12.――――Of Lydia. _Propertius_,
bk. 4, poem 6, li. 7.
=Cadmēa=, a citadel of Thebes, built by Cadmus. It is generally
taken for Thebes itself, and the Thebans are often called Cadmeans.
_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 8, li. 601.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 5.
=Cadmēis=, an ancient name of Bœotia.