Brewer's: Academics

Academ′ics

The followers of Plato were so called, because they attended his lectures in the Academy, a garden planted by Academos.

“See there the olive grove of Academus, Plato's retreat.”

—Milton: Paradise Lost, Book iv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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