current, to whom was ascribed the introduction of the alphabet, the
invention of agriculture and working in bronze and of civilization
generally. But the name itself is Greek rather than Phoenician; and the
fact that Hermes was worshipped in Samothrace under the name of Cadmus or
Cadmilus seems to show that the Theban Cadmus was originally an ancestral
Theban hero corresponding to the Samothracian. The name may mean "order,"
and be used to characterize one who introduces order and civilization.

The exhaustive article by O. Crusius in W.H. Roscher's _Lexikon der
Mythologie_ contains a list of modern authorities on the subject of Cadmus;
see also O. Gruppe, _De Cadmi Fabula_ (1891).

CADMUS OF MILETUS, according to some ancient authorities the oldest of the
logographi (_q.v._). Modern scholars, who accept this view, assign him to
about 550 B.C.; others regard him as purely mythical. A confused notice in
Suidas mentions three persons of the name: the first, the inventor of the
alphabet; the second, the son of Pandion, "according to some" the first
prose writer, a little later than Orpheus, author of a history of the
_Foundation of Miletus_ and of Ionia generally, in four books; the third,
the son of Archelaus, of later date, author of a history of Attica in
fourteen books, and of some poems of an erotic character. As Dionysius of
Halicarnassus (_Judicium de Thucydide_, c. 23) distinctly states that the
work current in his time under the name of Cadmus was a forgery, it is most
probable that the two first are identical with the Phoenician Cadmus, who,
as the reputed inventor of letters, was subsequently transformed into the
Milesian and the author of an historical work. In this connexion it should
be observed that the old Milesian nobles traced their descent back to the
Phoenician or one of his companions. The text of the notice of the third
Cadmus of Miletus in Suidas is unsatisfactory; and it is uncertain whether
he is to be explained in the same way, or whether he was an historical
personage, of whom all further record is lost.

See C.W. Mueller, _Frag. Hist. Graec_, ii. 2-4; and O. Crusius in Roscher's
_Lexikon der Mythologie_ (article "Kadmos," 90, 91).

CADOGAN, WILLIAM CADOGAN, 1ST EARL (1675-1726), British soldier, was the
son of Henry Cadogan, a Dublin barrister, and grandson of Major William
Cadogan (1601-1661), governor of Trim. The family has been credited with a
descent from Cadwgan, the old Welsh prince. Cad