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ăcădēmī^a , ae, f., = ἀκαδήμεια, and less correctly ἀκαδημία,
I.the Academy, a gymnasium about six stadia from Athens, named after the hero Academos or Echedemos (cf. Plut. Thes. 31), celebrated as the place where Plato taught; whence his scholars were called Academici, and his doctrine Philosophia Academica, in distinction from Stoica, Cynica, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 98; id. Or. 3, 12; id. Fin. 5, 1, 1 al.
II. Meton.
A. For The philosophy of the Academy: “instaret academia, quae quidquid dixisses, id te ipsum scire negaret,Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 43; id. Off. 3, 4, 20 al.: “Academia vetus,id. Ac. 1, 4, 18; id. Fin. 5, 8, 21: “recens,id. Leg. 1, 13, 39; cf. “recentior,id. de Or. 3, 18, 68; “and adulescentior,id. Fam. 9, 8, 1: “nova,id. Ac. 1, 12, 46 al.
B. Cicero, as a partisan of the Academic philosophy, named his estate, on the way from Lake Avernus to Puteoli, Academia; there also he wrote the Academica. He had another Academia at his Tusculan Villa, Cic. Tusc. 2, 3; 3, 3; id. Att. 1, 4, 3 al. (The i long, Cic. Div. 1, 13, 22; Tull. Laurea ap. Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 8; “short,Claud. de Cons. Mall. Theod. 94; Sid. 15, 120.)
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.8.1
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.4.3
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.10
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.21
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.18
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 31.8
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 1.13
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.1
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.8
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.13
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.3
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.4
    • Cicero, Orator, 3.12
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