Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Cadmus” in card 185 of Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Art of Poetry: To the Pisos:
...soon after deliver in presence [of the spectators]. Let not Medea murder her sons before the people; nor the execrable Atreus openly dress human entrails: nor let Progne be metamorphosed into a bird, Cadmus into a serpent. Whatever you show to me in this manner, not able to give credit to, I detest.
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