Academia
Academia, the gymnasium near Athens, where Plato taught
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- 1. Academie, klein bos bij Athene, oorspr. aan de held Acadēmus gewijd, plaats waar Plato onderwijs gaf; (meton.) de filosofie v.d. Academie; — adj. Acadēmicus, a, um behorend tot de Academie, Academisch; — subst. Acadēmicī, ōrum m de Academici, leerlingen v. Plato en aanhangers v.d. Academische (platoonse) filosofie;
- 2. (a) Cicero’s gymnasium op zijn landgoed in Tusculum, dat hij, als aanhanger v.d. Academische filosofie, naar de Atheense Academie vernoemd had; (b) landgoed in Campanië, dat Cicero naar de Atheense Academie noemde en waar hij zijn ‘Academica’ schreef;
- 3. (Mel.) universiteit.
- the gymnasium near Athens, where Plato taught. — Meton., the doctrines of Plato, the Academic philosophy; the philosophers of the Academy; a place near Puteoli, where Cicero wrote the Academica; Cicero's villa at Tusculum; a treatise on the Academic philosophy, the Academica.
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…sententiam suam. apud ceteros autem philosophos, qui quaesivit aliquid, tacet ; quod quidem iam fit etiam in Academia. ubi enim is, qui audire vult, ita dixit Voluptas mihi videtur esse summum bonum, perpetua oratione…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
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…ut cum in eadem re paria contrariis in partibus momenta rationum invenirentur facilius ab utraque parte assensio sustineretur. Hanc Academiam novam appellant, quae mihi vetus videtur, si quidem Platonem ex illa vetere numeramus, cuius in libris nihil…
M. Tullius Cicero, Academica
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…proximum fuit, uti in quo vellemus gymnasio eum sepeliremus, nobis permiserunt. nos in nobilissimo orbi terrarum gymnasio Academiae locum delegimus ibique eum combussimus posteaque curavimus, ut eidem Athenienses in eodem loco monumentum ei marmoreum faciendum locarent .…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
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…; ex quo efficitur nihil posse conprehendi. ita inprudens co quo minime volt revolvitur. Quare omnis oratio contra Academiam suscipitur a nobis, ut retineamus eam definitionem quam Philo voluit evertere ; quam nisi optinemus, percipi nihil posse…
M. Tullius Cicero, Lucullus
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…quid ipse sentiret ostendere, sed contra id, quod quisque se sentire dixisset, disputare. Hinc haec recentior Academia manavit, in qua exstitit divina quadam celeritate ingeni dicendique copia Carneades ; cuius ego etsi multos auditores cognovi Athenis…
Cicero, de Oratore
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…impediunt ullius certae disciplinae libasque ex omnibus, quodcumque te maxime specie veritatis movet, quod paulo ante Peripateticos veteremque Academiam hortari videbare, ut sine retractatione libere dicere auderent sapientis esse semper beatissimos, id velim audire, quem ad…
M. Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes
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…admodum aspernor. sed tibi quid tandem videtur Hortensi Tum ille ridens Tollendum. Teneo te inquam ; nam ista Academia est propria sententia. Ita sermone confecto Catulus remansit, nos ad naviculas nostras descendimus .…
M. Tullius Cicero, Lucullus
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…in praefatione fasciculi, non opus est hic repetere omnia, ponam tamen necessaria. Est igitur in codice bibliothecae academiae Lugduno Batavae Vossiano Lat. Fol. saeculi IX extremi vel ineuntis X, litteraturae Carolinianae, formae oblongae ,…
M. Tullius Cicero, Academica
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…praedicanti tamen facile equidem crederem, sicut mali aedificii domino glorianti se architectum non habuisse ; nihil enim olet ex Academia, nihil ne ex Lycio, nihil ne e puerilibus quidem disciplinis. Xenocraten audire potuit quem virum, dii…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Natura Deorum
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…, et fateor me oratorem, si modo sim aut etiam quicumque sim, non ex rhetorum officinis sed ex Academiae spatiis exstitisse ; illa enim sunt curricula multiplicium variorumque sermonum, in quibus Platonis primum sunt impressa vestigia. Sed…
M. Tullius Cicero, Orator
ACADEMI´A [ATHENAE]
(Ἀκαδήμεια). (1) A public garden or grove in the suburbs of Athens, about six stadia from the city, named from Academus or Hecademus, who left it to the citizens for gymnastics (Paus.i. 29). It was surrounded with a wall by Hipparchus, adorned with statues, temples, and sepulchres of illustrious men; planted with olive and plane trees, and watered by the Cephissus. The olive-trees, according to Athenian fables, were reared from layers taken from the sacred olive in the Erechtheum, and afforded the oil given as a prize to victors at the Panathenaean festival. Few retreats could be more favorable to philosophy and the Muses. Within this enclosure Plato possessed, as part of his patrimony, a small garden, in which he opened a school for the reception of those inclined to attend his instructions. Hence arose the Academic sect, and hence the term Academy has descended to our times. The appellation Academia is frequently used in philosophical writings, especially in Cicero, as indicative of the Academic sect. See Philosophia.
Sextus Empiricus enumerates five divisions of the followers of Plato. He makes Plato founder of the first Academy, Arcesilaüs of the second, Carneades of the third, Philo and Charmides of the fourth, Antiochus of the fifth. Cicero recognizes only two Academies, the Old and New, and makes the latter commence as above with Arcesilaus. In enumerating those of the Old Academy, he begins, not with Plato, but Democritus, and gives them in the following order: Democritus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Socrates, Plato, Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, Crates, and Crantor. In the New, or Younger, he mentions Arcesilaüs, Lacydes, Evander, Hegesinus, Carneades, Clitomachus, and Philo (Philo Acad. Quaest. iv. 5). If we follow the distinction laid down by Diogenes, and alluded to above, the Old Academy will consist of those followers of Plato who taught the doctrine of their master without mixture or corruption; the Middle will embrace those who, by certain innovations in the manner of philosophizing, in some measure receded from the Platonic system without entirely deserting it; while the New will begin with those who relinquished the more obnoxious tenets of Arcesilaüs, and restored, in some measure, the declining reputation of the Platonic school (see Plato).
(2) A villa of Cicero near Puteoli (Pliny, H. N. xxxi. 2).