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At length, quite vain, he needs would show His master what his art could do; And bade his slaves the chariot lead To Academus' sacred shade.

True he sat at the feet of the wise men of Greece in the Gardens of Academus, but the eurythmy of their gests fascinated him more than the soberness of their doctrines.

The classic shades of Bryn Mawr had been the "Groves of Academus where with old Plato she had walked."

So the orchard of Academus suggests the ripest wisdom and most elegant learning of accomplished Greece.

This latter plain, with its fine olive-woods reaching down across Academus to the region of the old long walls, is fairly covered with corn and grazing cattle, with plane trees and poplars.