groves of Academe

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groves of Academe

the academic community – literary

This phrase alludes to the Roman poet Horace's Epistles in which he says : Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum and seek for truth in the groves of Academe. The Academia was a grove near ancient Athens where a number of philosophers, Plato among them, taught their pupils.

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