Academus

American  

[ak-uh-dee-muhs] / ˌæk əˈdi məs /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Here Mausolus, a king of Caria, has left us ‘mausoleum’, Academus ‘academy’, Epicurus ‘epicure’, Philip of Macedon a ‘philippic’, being such a discourse as Demosthenes once launched against the enemy of Greece, and Cicero ‘cicerone’.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

The classic shades of Bryn Mawr had been the "Groves of Academus where with old Plato she had walked."

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

It is destined for the Temple of the Muses, which Plato is causing to be built among the olive-groves of Academus.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Academus was a local hero, connected with the legend of Theseus and Helen.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Church, Alfred John

This latter plain, with its fine olive-woods reaching down across Academus to the region of the old long walls, is fairly covered with corn and grazing cattle, with plane trees and poplars.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.