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Abdera (Abde`ra) , a town in ancient Thrace, proverbial for the stupidity of its inhabitants.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Abdera in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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