ăcădēmus — Lewis & Short
ăcădēmus, i, m., = *)aka/dhmos,
I a Grecian hero, from whom the Academia near Athens is said to have derived its name:
inter silvas Academi,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 45.
The corpus record — Latin
Academus
Academus · m
a Grecian hero
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Where it lives
- Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Academi Horace, Epistulae 2.2.45
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.