Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
The Areopagite, one of Paul’s converts at Athens (Acts 17:34).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
, Bacchus) the Areop’agite, (Acts 17:34) an eminent Athenian, converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul. ) He is said to have been first bishop of Athens. The writings which were once attributed to him are now confessed to be the production of some neo-Platonists of the sixth century.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
e. Bacchus), a member of the court of the Areopagus; converted under the preaching of Paul at Athens. Acts 17:34. d. 95. The writings which bear his name are of much later date.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
divinely touched