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
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...scriptum reliquit Demosthenen admodum adulescentem ventitare in Academiam Platonemque audire solitum. "Atque is" inquit "Demosthenes domo egressus..."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..."