Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Acroāsis

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Acroāsis

（ἀκρόασις).

1.

A literary discourse or lecture. The term (itself of Greek origin) is applied by the Latin writers to a discourse or disputation, by some instructor or professor of an art, to a numerous audience. The corresponding Latin term is auditio.

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It also signifies a place or room where literary men met, a lecture-room.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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