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Boeotian : of Boeotia, a district of ancient Greece, with a distinctive military, artistic, & political history. It lay north of Attica. The Athenians taunted the Boeotians with being dull & slow-witted. So the word Boeotian has come to mean “dull (person)”.

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... outburst. "This attitude of the Extremists merely exposes their Boeotian stupidity. Let them lay to it, that if they do not yet refrain from the obnoxious procedure, they are sure to come to grief." We Page 176 will lay to it, S. M. After such a scintillation of Attic wit and rumbling of Homeric thunder, our Boeotian stupidity finds itself irremediably reduced to Laconic silence. Truly ...

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