akropolis

No reasonable guess can be made at its pagan dedication; in the fifteenth century of our era it followed the far earlier precedent of the temples in the akropolis.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

To the same period also belong the other temples in the lower city, temples which abide above ground either standing or in ruins, while the older temples in the akropolis have to be looked for underneath buildings of later ages.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

Yet the ascent from the Orne to the upper part of the town is very marked, and as the chief buildings, ecclesiastical and military, are gathered together on the higher ground, there is a true akropolis.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

And there is no doubt that this akropolis had its own circuit of wall, distinct from that of the lower town.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

The Moretolian akropolis, like some others, was not an akropolis in the literal sense, for the good reason that the point of most value for military purposes was not the most lofty.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

Rockie poor supes just bring in darkseid, a boom tube, and akropolis for fucks sake.

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