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Boeotian   Listen
adjective
Boeotian  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to Boeotia.
2.
Hence: Stupid; dull; obtuse.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Boeotian" Quotes from Famous Books



... patriotic Boeotian, felt called on to write a tract concerning the malice of Herodotus in having told some unpleasant truths about the Thebans; and many of our countrymen have shown themselves as Boeotian, at least, if not as patriotic, in their ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various

... their periods, and are consumed. In those flourishing times of Troy, Mycenae was the fairest city in Greece, Graeciae cunctae imperitabat, but it, alas, and that [3902]"Assyrian Nineveh are quite overthrown:" the like fate hath that Egyptian and Boeotian Thebes, Delos, commune Graeciae, conciliabulum, the common council-house of Greece, [3903]and Babylon, the greatest city that ever the sun shone on, hath now nothing but walls and rubbish left. [3904]Quid Pandioniae restat nisi nomen Athenae? ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior



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