Sentence:  It was not even in writing Latin epigrams , sometimes bawdy ones , or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative <WSD>academics</WSD> , or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus 's philological study of the New Testament . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an educator who works at a college or university