Beotian

“And I will conclude, my very dear Richard, by saying that London air is Beotian air too, not fit for my Attic lungs to respire.”

Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

“Ho ho ho, and off into the Beotian air go my Attic lungs!”

Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

“Mathematics, Fluxions, and the doctrine of all essential spirits that admit of proof -- in the name of Nebuchadanezar the divine, who invented the convenient scheme of taking a cold collation under a hedge -- by the power of that profound branch of learning, the Greek Digemma -- by the authority of true Latin, primo, of Beotian Greek, secundo, and of”

Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three