Crossword-Solution: AREOPAGUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Areopagus | n. | The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal |
We have 9 clues for the answer “AREOPAGUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ARCHONS, advisory body to the | 1 answer |
| ATHENIAN court meeting site | 1 answer |
| Athenian tribunal | 1 answer |
| High tribunal | 1 answer |
| High tribunal, Greek style. | 1 answer |
| Highest court of ancient Athens. | 1 answer |
| Hill west of the Acropolis. | 1 answer |
| Tribunal of Athens | 1 answer |
| the highest governmental assembly in ancient Athens | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with AREOPAGUS (5)
For on her native hill of Ares here (I knew your far-famed Areopagus) Sits Justice, and permits not vagrant folk To stay within your borders.
Thus the books of Protagoras were by the judges of Areopagus commanded to be burnt, and himself banished the territory for a discourse begun with his confessing not to know WHETHER THERE WERE GODS, OR WHETHER NOT.
When the great emergencies of the state required his presence and attention, he was engaged in conversation with the philosopher Plotinus, 154 wasting his time in trifling or licentious pleasures, preparing his initiation to the Grecian mysteries, or soliciting a place in the Areopagus of Athens.
His epistle to the senate and people of Athens 37 seems to have been dictated by an elegant enthusiasm; which prompted him to submit his actions and his motives to the degenerate Athenians of his own times, with the same humble deference as if he had been pleading, in the days of Aristides, before the tribunal of the Areopagus.
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.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1950–1991).