Arcadian

& s. [In Ger. & Fr. Arcadien; Lat. Arcadius; from the country Ar cadi a, said to be named after Arcas, a son of Jupiter and Call is to.] A. As adjective: Pertaining to Arcadia, a country in the heart of the Peloponnesus, the inhabitants of which were reckoned as simple, ignorant, and stupid, but happy. "The poor, inured to drudgery and distre , Act without aim, think little, and feel le , And nowhere, but in feign'd Arcadian scenes, Taste happine , or know what pleasure means." Cowper: Hope . B. As substantive: 1. An inhabitant of Arcadia. "The Arcadians speak of Jupiter himself." Cowper: Transl. from Virgil , Eneid , bk. viii. 2. A name sometimes a umed by persons in modern tines who imitated or affected to imitate Arcadian simplicity. the wits even of Rome are united into a rural group of nymphs and swains under the appellation of modern Arcadians." - Goldsmith: Polite Learning, chap. iv.