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Academus
[ ak-uh-dee-muhs ]
noun
- an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
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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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