ἀκρόπολις

A. upper or higher city; hence, citadel, castle, ἐς ἀκρόπολιν Od. 8.494 (in Il. only divisim, ἄκρη πόλις, v. ἄκρος 1.1), cf. Pi. O. 7.49, A. Th. 240, Hdt. 1.84, etc.; as seat of tyranny, Ph. 1.401,417.

2. esp. the Acropolis of Athens, IG 1.58, al., And. 1.76 (cf. Hdt. 1.60, 8.51); which served as treasury, Th. 2.13; hence ἀνενεχθῆναι εἰς ἀκρόπολιν, γεγράφθαι ἐν ἀκροπόλει to be entered as a state-debtor, D. 58.19,48; freq. without Art., as And.l.c., D.ll. cc.; at Erythrae, IG 1.11.

II. metaph., ἀ. καὶ πύργος ἐὼν δήμῳ, of a person, Thgn. 233; ἀ. Ἑλλάνων, of Corinth, Simon. 137; γῆν Δελφίδ’ . . Φωκέων ἀκρόπτολιν E. Or. 1094; stronghold, τῆς ψυχῆς, τοῦ σώματος, Pl. R. 560b, Arist. PA 670a26, cf. Pl. Ti. 70a; Pythag., of seven, Theol. Ar. 44.