areopagus

IPA: ˈɛriˈoʊpʌgʌs

Root Word: Areopagus

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

Examples of "areopagus" in Sentences

Some likewise make him the founder of the areopagus.
An areopagus of nine robes does not a republic make.
Thus Epimenides gathered a flock of sheep to the Areopagus and released them.
A complex and multiform areopagus thus opens up before you to be evangelized: the world.
The third girl is on her feet, dancing before this areopagus of idiots, with their lanky locks and pot-hats.
It is said that the Athenians punished with death every stranger who entered their areopagus or sovereign tribunal.
I united them into a tribunal, a senate, a sanhedrim, an areopagus, and we gave the following decision to be commented upon by the litterateures of the twenty – eighth century.
We write and comment every day upon the judgments passed by the senate of Rome and the areopagus of Athens; but we think not for a moment of what passes before our own tribunals.