place
the Lyceum
also: Lycium, Lycio, the Lyceum
The gymnasium and grove at Athens where Aristotle taught, giving the Peripatetic school its setting. Cicero notes that its members were called Peripatetics because they debated while walking about there.
Reading notes
- On Divination §2.8 the library that is in the Lyceum
The Lyceum was the gymnasium at Athens where Aristotle taught; Cicero gave the name to a colonnaded walk and library on his own Tusculan estate, the dramatic setting of book 2.