Academus

[ ak-uh-dee-muhs ]

noun

1. an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.

Example Sentences

As it was, he soon left the groves of Academus, and sought those of Fashion in town.

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The Academy at Athens was an open meadow, given to the city by Academus, from whom it took its name.

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"It is fear, unmingled with reverence, in the minds of many," replied the philosopher of Academus.

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Inter sylvas Academi qurere verum—Amid 40 the woods of Academus to seek for truth.

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So the orchard of Academus suggests the ripest wisdom and most elegant learning of accomplished Greece.

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