Academus

[ ak-uh-dee-muhs ]

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

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How to use Academus in a sentence

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

    The Wits and Beaux of Society | Grace & Philip Wharton
  • The Academy at Athens was an open meadow, given to the city by Academus, from whom it took its name.

    Rambles in Rome | S. Russell Forbes
  • "It is fear, unmingled with reverence, in the minds of many," replied the philosopher of Academus.

    Philothea | Lydia Maria Child
  • Inter sylvas Academi qurere verum—Amid 40 the woods of Academus to seek for truth.

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

    Tablets | Amos Bronson Alcott