a man of Abdera, Gothamite, like an Abderite, stupid
a man of Abdera in Thrace, the Gothamite of antiquity, prov. of simpletons, D. 17.23:—Adj. Ἀβδηριτικός, ή, όν, like an Abderite, i.e. stupid, Cic. Att. 7.7.4, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 2.
The corpus record
Ἀβδηρίτης
*abderites · ὁ
a man of Abdera
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Where it lives
- De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8 · 0.75/10k
- Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Ἀβδηρίτης · Abdēritēs Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 10)
- Ἀβδηρίτης · Abdēritēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.10 (DIORISIS sentence 8168)
- Ἀβδηρίτης · Abdēritēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8191)
- Ἀβδηρίτης · Abdēritēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8246)
- Ἀβδηρίταις · Abdēritais Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.4 (DIORISIS sentence 7850)
- Ἀβδηρίτης · Abdēritēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.6 (DIORISIS sentence 7896)
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Where it came from
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