Definitions for Academus

Academus Ac·a·de·mus

Spelling: [ak-uh-dee-muh s]
IPA: /ˌæk əˈdi məs/

Academus is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in Academus (aacdemsu).

Definitions for Academus

noun

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

Examples for Academus

"The grove of Academus is one of the few places now remaining where virtue is really taught and encouraged," rejoined Anaxagoras.

The groves of Academus would breathe the wisdom of property philosophy.

Inter sylvas Academi qurere verum—Amid 40 the woods of Academus to seek for truth.

In time Plato bought a tract of land adjoining that of Academus, and this was set apart as the permanent school.

The Academy at Athens was an open meadow, given to the city by Academus, from whom it took its name.

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

As it was, he soon left the groves of Academus, and sought those of Fashion in town.

They talk of progress, and while they talk they sigh for all that they have lost in Academus.

He founded his college in the grove of his old friend Academus, a mile out of Athens on the road to Eleusis.

So the orchard of Academus suggests the ripest wisdom and most elegant learning of accomplished Greece.

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