For thou bringest certain strange things (ξενιζοντα γαρ τινα εισφερεις). The very verb used by Xenophon (Mem. I) about Socr…

Certain strange things. Literally, something pertaining to a foreign country or people. Here it means something unusual, remarkab…

You bring certain strange things.—The adjective stands for a Greek participle, things that startle, or leave an impression of…

The Areopagus (meaning “Council of Ares”; GK 740) reaches back to legendary antiquity. Presumably it first met at Athens on the Hill of Ares, north…

For you bring certain strange things to our ears
Strange doctrines and strange deities, such as they had never heard…

Athens was then famed for refined learning, philosophy, and the fine arts; yet no one is more childish, superstitious, impious, or credulous than s…