Council of the Areopagus
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Against Timocrates (Greek)
otherwise they shall not be raised to the Council of Areopagus, as obstructing the rectification of the statutes.
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Aristocratic council that gained informal ascendancy after Salamis and later lost its guardianship powers to democratic bodies
Sixth, after the Persian Wars, when the Council of the Areopagus presided.
The Council of the Areopagus, then, was deprived of its oversight in this way.
For this reason men yielded to its prestige, and the Athenians were well governed during these times.
Stromata
Members of the Athenian council of the Areopagus, addressed directly by Paul.
Paul, in the Acts of the Apostles, is recorded as saying to the Areopagites:
Against Aristogeiton I
Athenian council or court sitting in the King’s Portico.
The Council of the Areopagus, when it sits roped off in the King’s Portico, enjoys complete freedom from disturbance, and all men hold aloof.
Against Leptines
Athenian council invoked as the special guardian against retaliatory homicide.
What but those vengeful murders against which our specially appointed protector is the Council of the Areopagus?
Against Timocrates
Athenian council from which negligent judges are barred under the ratification statute.
otherwise they shall not be raised to the Council of Areopagus, as obstructing the rectification of the statutes.
On the Crown
Athenian council invoked as investigator and selector of a state advocate.
Thus by rejecting this man from his spokesmanship, and giving the appointment to another, the Council branded him as a traitor and an enemy to the people.
Had not the Council of the Areopagus, becoming aware of the facts, and seeing that you had made a most inopportune blunder, started further inquiries, arrested the man, and brought him into court a second time, the vile traitor would have slipped out of your hands and eluded justice, being smuggled out of the city by our bombastic phrase-monger.
We, Callias of Sunium, Zeno of Phlya, Cleon of Phalerum, Demonicus of Marathon, on behalf of all the councillors, bear witness for Demosthenes that, when the people elected Aeschines state-advocate before the Amphictyons in the matter of the temple at Delos, we in Council judged Hypereides more worthy to speak on behalf of the state, and Hypereides was accordingly commissioned.
Areopagiticus
The ancestral Athenian council charged with supervising civic decorum, discipline, and moral education.
Nothing of the sort happened when the Areopagus was in power;
But in fact, they thought, virtue is not advanced by written laws but by the habits of every-day life;
Understanding this, they restrained the people from wrongdoing in both ways—both by punishment and by watchfulness;
Against Leocrates
Athens' ancient homicide court, praised as an impartial model and cited as precedent for executing wartime deserters.
For the council of the Areopagus;
for you have granted this freedom to speakers appearing before you, although you have, in the council of the Areopagus, the finest model in Greece:
When therefore certain actions have been censured by the most impartial council and condemned by you who were the judges appointed by lot, when they have been recognized by the people as demanding the severest punishment, will you give a verdict which opposes all these views?