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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Academus

Did you never hear, for all so long as you war in Cambridge, of a nate little spot in Greece called the groves of Academus?

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

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 Lydia Maria Francis Child

True he sat at the feet of the wise men of Greece in the Gardens of Academus, but the eurythmy of their gests fascinated him more than the soberness of their doctrines.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

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 Abram Smythe Palmer

"I mean the philosopher, who teaches in the groves of Academus," continued he.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Francis Child

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