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A maritime town of Thrace, said in fable to have been founded by Abdēra, sister of Diomede. It was so overrun with rats that it was abandoned, and the Abderītans migrated to Macedonia.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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