The corpus record — Latin

academia

academia · f

the Academy

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Where it lives

Academica 11 · 22.59/10k
Lucullus 15 · 8.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De Fato 2 · 4.04/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 12 · 2.4/10k
Brutus 5 · 1.99/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
De Divinatione 5 · 1.82/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 9 · 1.59/10k
De Oratore 9 · 1.49/10k
de Natura Deorum 5 · 1.4/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăcădēmī^a — Lewis & Short

ăcădēmī^a, ae, f., = a)kadh/meia, and less correctly a)kadhmi/a,

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.)

In the wild

Academiae Cicero, Orator 12
Academia Cicero, Lucullus 55
Academia Cicero, Academica 1.17
Academiam Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.91
Academiae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.1.p4
Academiam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.2.p2

6 of 110 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.