AREOPAGITE

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AREOPAGITE


AREOPAGITE. A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus. Solon first established the Areopagites; although some say, they were established in the time ofCecrops, (Anno Mundi, 2553,) the year that Aaron, the brother of Moses,died; that Draco abolished the order, and Solon reestablished it.Demosthenes, in his harangue against Aristocrates, before the Areopagus,speaks of the founders of that tribunal as unknown. See Acts of theApostles, xviii. 34.

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