Meaning of Areopagus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The supreme judicial and legislative council of ancient Athens.
2. A prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

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Examples

“When the great emergencies of the state required his presence and attention, he was engaged in conversation with the philosopher Plotinus, wasting his time in trifling or licentious pleasures, preparing his initiation to the Grecian mysteries, or soliciting a place in the Areopagus of Athens.”

“All hands were on deck, all the afternoon, with books and maps and glasses, trying to determine which “narrow rocky ridge” was the Areopagus, which sloping hill the Pnyx, which elevation the Museum Hill, and so on.”

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