Crossword-Solution: AREOPAGITES 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The Areopagites sat as judges in the open air, and two blocks of stone are still to be seen, probably those which were occupied respectively by the accuser and the accused.

The Senate of the Bean in Athens, because it was but annual, was moderately salaried; but that of the Areopagites, being for life, bountifully; and what advantages the senators of Lacedaemon had, where there was little money or use of it, were in honors for life.

Athens was the most famous university in her days; and her senators, that is to say, the Areopagites, were all philosophers.

Let us have some form of decree that says, "The court understands nothing of the matter" more freely and ingenuously than the Areopagites did, who, finding themselves perplexed with a cause they could not unravel, ordered the parties to appear again after a hundred years.

That venerable senate of the Areopagites used to hear and determine by night, for fear lest the sight of the parties might corrupt their justice.