The followers of Plato were so called, because they attended his lectures in the Acadʹemy, a garden planted by Acadeʹmos.
“See there the olive grove of Acadēmus, Plato’s retreat.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, Book iv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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