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発音

• IPA: /æɹiˈɒpəɡəs/

固有名詞

Areopagus

1. (Ancient Greece) The supreme judicial and legislative council of ancient Athens.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter X, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 152:

     At its end, Orestes’ disordered brain envisages the sable-robed demons coiled about with snakes who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case.

2. A prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
   • 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC:

     All hands were on deck, all the afternoon, with books and maps and glasses, trying to determine which “narrow rocky ridge” was the Areopagus, which sloping hill the Pnyx, which elevation the Museum Hill, and so on.

Further reading

• Areopagus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia