Chapter Cabala to Cadmean Victory of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Cadger One who carries butter, eggs, and poultry to market; a packman or huckster. From cadge (to carry). Hence the frame on which hawks were carried was called “a cadge,” and the man who carried it, a “cadger.” A man of low degree.

“Every cadger thinks himself as good as an earl.”- McDonald: Malcolm, part ix. chap. xiv. p. 183.

Cadi among the Turks, Arabs, etc., is a town magistrate or inferior judge. “Cadi Lesker” is a superior cadi. The Spanish Alcaydë is the Moorish al cadi. (Arabic, the judge.)

Cadmean Letters (The). The simple Greek letters introduced by Cadmus from Phoenicia. (Greek myth.)

Cadmean Victory (Greek, Kadmeia nike; Latin, Cadmea Victoria). A victory purchased with great loss. The allusion is to the armed men who sprang out of the ground from the teeth of the dragon sown by Cadmus. These men fell foul of each other, and only five of them escaped death.