Scythes
2. The father of Cadmus, tyrant of Cos, mentioned by Herodotus (7.163), is supposed by K. O. Muller (Dorians, vol. i. p. 193, note) to be identical with the preceding [CADMUS]. The subsequent removal of Cadmus to Zancle certainly gives much probability to the conjecture. Valckenaer and Larcher, however (ad Herod. 6.23, 7.163) consider him to have been another person of the same family.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.