from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
AREOPAGITE. A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus. Solon first established
the Areopagites; although some say, they were established in the time of
Cecrops, (Anno Mundi, 2553,) the year that Aaron, the brother of Moses,
died; that Draco abolished the order, and Solon reestablished it.
Demosthenes, in his harangue against Aristocrates, before the Areopagus,
speaks of the founders of that tribunal as unknown. See Acts of the
Apostles, xviii. 34.