AREOPAGITE
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AREOPAGITEAREOPAGITE. 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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