academiam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Academia, Academiae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
academy, university; gymnasium where Plato taught; school built by Cicero;
acc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...scriptum reliquit Demosthenen admodum adulescentem ventitare in Academiam Platonemque audire solitum. "Atque is" inquit "Demosthenes domo egressus..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dicenda sententia non liquebit? XXV. Academiam quidam utilissimam credunt, quod mos in utramque partem disserendi ad exercitationem forensium..."