Areopagus (Areop`agus) , the hill of Ares in Athens, which gave name to the celebrated council held there, a tribunal of 31 members, charged with judgment in criminal offences, and whose sentences were uniformly the awards of strictest justice.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Areopagitica * Arequi`pa