Academus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"This is my Academus, and you, Tadpole, are my Plato."
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The true name of Cadmus, according to this supposition, must have been, as I have represented, Acadamus; or, as the Ionians expressed it, Academus, to have Academia formed from it.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob
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
"I mean the philosopher, who teaches in the groves of Academus," continued he.
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
He founded his college in the grove of his old friend Academus, a mile out of Athens on the road to Eleusis.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert
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