Arcadian
A shepherd, a fancy farmer; so called because the Arcardians
were a pastoral people, and hence pastoral poetry is called Arcadic.
An Arcadian youth. A dunce or blockhead; so called because the
Arcardians were the least intellectual of all the Greeks. Juneval (vii.
160) uses the phrase Arcadicus juvenis for a stupid fool.
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