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Boeotian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to ancient Boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times.





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"Boeotian" Quotes from Famous Books



... now come to such a lamentable pass, that without either literary or scientific acquirements, mere local knowledge, such as can be obtained from a finger-post, may sometimes prevent us from the full enjoyment of the Boeotian absurdity of our neighbours. What can, at first view, appear a grosser blunder than that of the Irishman who begged a friend to look over his library, to find for him the history of the world before the creation? Yet this anachronism of ideas is not ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. IV • Maria Edgeworth


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