[Gr. ἀκρόπολις, f. ἄκρο- (see ACRO-) + πόλις city. (The pl., rarely used, would be analogically acropolēs; we find the Gr. ἀκροπόλεις simply transliterated.)] The elevated part of the town, or the citadel, in a Grecian city; esp. that of Athens. Also fig.
1607. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts, 339. Of this [Troyan] horsse there was a brazen image at Athens in Acropolis.
1662. More, Antid. agst. Ath., II. xii. (1712), 79. As if Nature kept garrison in this Acropolis of Man’s body, the Head.
1840. Arnold, Hist. Rome, II. 428. The Acropolis of Corinth was held by one Alexander.
1850. Leitch, trans. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 168, 146. Massive walls … surround their cities, not merely their acropoleis.
1876. Humphrey, Coin Coll. Man., vi. 65. In Athens the weights connected with the coinage were kept with great care in the Acropolis.
