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ACHADEMYCIS. Plato founded his Academy c. 385 B.C. His followers were sometimes called the Academics.

Lady Philosophy commands the Muses to leave Boethius, who has been nourished by studies of the Eleatics and the Academics, Bo I, Prosa 1.68. [Eleaticis: Parmanydes: Plato: Zeno]

Achademycis is Chaucer's transliteration of Academicis, Latin dative plural of Academici.

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, ed. and trans. S.J. Tester, note a, 134-135.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
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