Cadmean victory

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Yet he who thought he ought to have a Cadmean victory, carried on his conquest.

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It would be a Cadmean victory in which the victor would suffer as much as the vanquished.

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So it is that partly conquering and partly defeated, sometimes gaining the mastery over others and again falling prostrate themselves, some are altogether annihilated and others gain a Cadmean victory, as it is called, and at a time when the knowledge can avail them nothing they perceive that their plans were ill drawn.

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With averted face she held out the envelope, then the curtain fell; and in solitude the aching heart went over the fatal field, silently burying its slain hopes, realizing the bitterness of its Cadmean victory.

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