Academy of Athens
Philosophical school founded by Plato in Athens. Jerome notes that Plato, though powerful in the Academy, preferred to travel abroad and learn modestly from others.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Plato's teaching resounded in the gymnasia of the Academy, yet he chose to become a stranger and a student
"whose teaching resounded in the gymnasia of the Academy, might become a stranger and a student"
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture
— The academy of Plato knew nothing of revealed truths
"the academy of Plato knew nothing of these things"