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Ἄρειος

Ἄρειος, devoted to Ares, warlike, martial; (πάγος:) the hill of Ares; (πεδίον) campus Martius

Ἄρειος2, personal name, e.g. Areius Didymus, teacher of Augustus

Ἄρειος [ᾰ], ον, also α, ον E. HF 413 (lyr.); Ion. Ἀρήϊος, η, ον; Aeol. Ἀρεύϊος Alc. Supp. 1a.10: (Ἄρης):—
  • devoted to Ares, warlike, martial; in Hom., mostly of warriors, Μενέλαος Ἀρήιος Il. 3.339, al.; Ἀρήϊοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν 11.800, al.; of arms, Ἀρήϊα τεύχεα δύω 6.340, cf. 10.407; the Att. form only in the phrase τεῖχος Ἄρειον 4.407, al.; also in Hdt., ἀρήιοι ἀγῶνες conflicts in real war, opp. γυμνικοί, 9.33; ὅπλον ἀ. 4.23; of a man, as Subst., warrior, 6.98; Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀρεία OGI 229.70 (Smyrna), cf. IG 12(5).913 (Tenos): Comp. ἀρειότερος (q.v.) Thgn. 548 is prob. formed from ἀρείων, as χερειότερος from χερείων.
      • 2 Ἄρειος (also Ἄρεος, Ἄρηος), ὁ (sc. μήν), name of month in Thessaly, GDI 1449, etc.
      • 3 Ἄρειον πεδίον, = Campus Martius, D.H. 7.59, Plu. Pomp. 53 (also name of a plain in Thrace, Plb. 13.10.7); τῶν τελῶν τὸ καλούμενον Ἄρειον, = legio Martia, App. BC 3.45; Ἄρεια, τά, = ludi Martiales, D.C. 56.46.
      • 4 Ἄρειον, τό, = ξιφίον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.20; = ἰσάτις, Id. 2.184.
    • II = Ἄριος, Μάγοι καὶ πᾶν τὸ Ἄρειον γένος Dam. Pr. 125.
  • Ἄρειος πάγος [πᾰ], ὁ, the hill of Ares, at Athens, Ἀρήϊος π. Hdt. 8.52, cf. A. Eu. 685, 690, etc.; ἡ βουλὴ ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου IG 1.38a (prob.), 2.476.59, al., D. 18.133, cf. Lys. 26.12, Arist. Ath. 4.4; ἡ ἐν Ἀ. πάγῳ βουλή D. 20.157, Aeschin. 1.81, Arist. Pol. 1273b39; βουλὴ Ἀρεία IG 3.824; εἰς τὸν Ἄ. πάγον ἀναβῆναι become a member of the court, Isoc. 7.37, 12.154; ἐν Ἀ. πάγῳ δοῦναι δίκην Arist. Rh. 1398b26; ψευδομαρτύρια τὰ ἐξ Ἀ. πάγου Id. Ath. 59.6.—The compd. Ἀρειόπᾰγος only in a late Att. Inscr., IG 3.1005; but we find the noun Ἀρεοπᾰγίτης ( Ἀρευ- ib. 2.839.7) [ῑ], ου, ὁ, Areopagite, Aeschin. 1.81, IG 3.746, cf. 635, Arist. Ath. 3.6, etc.: prov., Ἀρεοπαγίτου σιωπηλότερος ‘as silent as the grave’, Them. Or. 21.263a; στεγανώτερος Alciphr. 1.13:—Adj. Ἀρεοπᾰγῖτις, βουλή Arist. Ath. 41.2, Alciphr. 2.3; Ἀρεοπᾰγῑτικός, ή, όν, Isoc. 7 tit., Str. 6.1.8.

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