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abdera
Wiktionary
n. A Thrace town known for the foolishness of its inhabitants.
Wikipedia
Abdera may refer to:
- Abdera, Thrace, a city and municipality in Greece
- Abdera, Spain, an ancient city
- Apache Abdera, an implementation of the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol
- Abdera (beetle), a genus of false darkling beetles
Abdera is a genus of false darkling beetles, in the family Melandryidae. It contains three species, two of which are extinct and were discovered in 2014.
Species are:
- Abdera flexuosa
- Abdera hoffeinsorum (extinct)
- Abdera rikojotensis (extinct)
Usage examples of "abdera".
Lais is now living on the island of Thasos, just opposite the coastal city of Abdera, where she was born to an Ionian Greek family.
Yet of all Ionians, those from Abdera are the least inclined to skepticism.
HAD NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS about Abdera, her sea journey, recent events at court.
For another, I was able to visit Abdera, where I met my grandfather, who received me like an only son.
Democritus of Abdera, son of Athenocritus, have organized these recollections of Cyrus Spitama into nine books.
The southern boundary splitting the Further province off from it was fairly tenuous, but seems to have run between the range of mountains called the Orospeda and the taller range behind Abdera called the Solorius.
The southern boundary between the two provinces was fairly tenuous, but seems to have run between the range of mountains called the Orospeda and the taller range behind Abdera called the Solorius.
Sempronius Blaesus and Sextius Julius Caesar, were sent to restore the Abderites to freedom, and to inform Hostilius and Hortensius that the senate considered the attack upon Abdera as utterly unjustifiable, and demanded that search should be made for all who were enslaved in order that they might be set free.