Academus

[ ak-uh-dee-muhs ]

/ ˌæk əˈdi məs /

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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.
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.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood

So the orchard of Academus suggests the ripest wisdom and most elegant learning of accomplished Greece.
Tablets|Amos Bronson Alcott