Bœotia (Bœo`tia) , a country of ancient Greece, N. of the Gulf of Corinth; the natives, though brave, were mere tillers of the soil under a heavy atmosphere, innocent of culture, and regarded as boors and dullards by the educated classes of Greece, and particularly of Athens, and yet Hesiod, Pindar, and Plutarch were natives of Bœotia.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Boehmer * Boerhaave