28th, and 29th days of every month. Their authority continued in its original state till Pericles, who was refused admittance among them, resolved to lessen their consequence and destroy their power. From that time the morals of the Athenians were corrupted, and the Areopagites were no longer conspicuous for their virtue and justice; and when they censured the debaucheries of Demetrius, one of the family of Phalereus, he plainly told them, that if they wished to make a reform in Athens, they must begin at home. =Areopăgus=, a hill in the neighbourhood of Athens. _See:_ Areopagitæ. =Arestæ=, a people of India, conquered by Alexander. _Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 8. =Aresthanas=, a countryman, whose goat suckled Æsculapius, when exposed by his mother. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 26. =Arestorĭdes=, a patronymic given to the hundred-eyed Argus, as son of Arestor. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1, li. 584. =Arĕta=, the mother of Aristippus the philosopher. _Diogenes Laërtius_, bk. 2.――――A daughter of Dionysius, who married Dion. She was thrown into the sea. _Plutarch_, _Dion_.――――A female philosopher of Cyrene, B.C. 377. =Arēta=, a daughter of Rhexenor, descended from Neptune, who married her uncle Alcinous, by whom she had Nausicaa. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 7 & 8.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1. =Aretæus=, a physician of Cappadocia, very inquisitive after the operations of nature. His treatise on agues has been much admired. The best edition of his works which are extant, is that of Boerhaave, Leiden, folio, 1735. =Aretaphĭla=, the wife of Melanippus, a priest of Cyrene. Nicocrates murdered her husband to marry her. She, however, was so attached to Melanippus, that she endeavoured to poison Nicocrates, and at last caused him to be assassinated by his brother Lysander, whom she married. Lysander proved as cruel as his brother, upon which Aretaphila ordered him to be thrown into the sea. After this she retired to a private station. _Plutarch_, _de Mulierum Virtutes_. ――_Polyænus_, bk. 8, ch. 38. =Aretāles=, a Cnidian, who wrote a history of Macedonia, besides a treatise on islands. _Plutarch._ =Arēte.= _See:_ Areta. =Arētes=, one of Alexander’s officers. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 15.