Senate of the Areopagus
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2 expressionsSenate of Areopagus1 mention
Ancient Law (English)
The primitive penal law of Athens entrusted the castigation of offences partly to the Archons, who seem to have punished them as torts, and partly to the Senate of Areopagus, which punished them as sins.
The Senate of the Areopagus1 mention
Against Timarchus (Greek)
Take the example of the Senate of the Areopagus, the most scrupulous tribunal in the city.
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
A high Athenian council or court invoked as both accountable to auditors and as a legal venue.
For, first, the Senate of the Areopagus is required by the law to file its accounts with the Board of Auditors and to submit to their examination;
the story of what happened to him in the matter of the suit over the wound, when he summoned his own cousin, Demomeles of Paeania, before the Areopagus;
At that time a certain private citizen who merely undertook to sail to Samos was on the same day punished with death by the Senate of the Areopagus, as a traitor to his country.
Against Timarchus
The ancient Athenian council of the Areopagus, invoked both as a political body reporting on Timarchus's proposal and as a model judicial tribunal.
Take the example of the Senate of the Areopagus, the most scrupulous tribunal in the city.
But, fellow citizens, we members of the Areopagus neither accuse nor defend, for such is not our tradition, but we do make some such allowance as this for Timarchus:
The Senate of the Areopagus appeared before the people in accordance with the resolution that Timarchus had introduced in the matter of the dwelling-houses on the Pnyx.
On the Embassy
The Areopagus body invoked as having fined Demosthenes in an unrelated assault matter.
And do you today accuse me of having taken bribes, you who were once fined by the Senate of the Areopagus for not prosecuting your suit for assault, that time when you indicted your cousin Demomeles of Paeania for the cut on your head that you gave yourself with your own hand?
Ancient Law
Athenian court that punished offences treated as sins against divine prescription.
The primitive penal law of Athens entrusted the castigation of offences partly to the Archons, who seem to have punished them as torts, and partly to the Senate of Areopagus, which punished them as sins.
The law administered at Athens by the Senate of Areopagus was probably a special religious code, and at Rome, apparently from a very early period, the Pontifical jurisprudence punished adultery, sacrilege, and perhaps murder.