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A people of greece proverbial for their stupidity; hence the proverb, “Wise as a Megarian”—i.e. not wise at all; yet see above.
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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.