arcopagus

Updated: May 25, 2025

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 Arcopagus of Athens.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1