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prytany Gr. Antiq.|ˈprɪtənɪ|
Also prut-.
[ad. Gr. πρυτανεία, f. πρύτανις prytanis.]
1. The presidency of the Athenian senate; the office or dignity of a prytanis. Also transf.
1885Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XVI. 169 If Schömann's older view is correct, the presiding officer..must always belong to the tribe which holds the prytany at the time. 1898A. Lang Making Relig. xv. 286 Modified by a weak reminiscence of the old kingship in the not very effective sovereignty (or prytany) of Zeus.
2. Each of the ten divisions of the Athenian Council of Five Hundred during its presidency; also the period of five weeks during which each division presided.
1807Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xxxi. 115 If these officers did not carry their rents before the ninth prytany, they were to pay double. 1847Grote Greece ii. xi. III. 163 note, The division of the year into ten portions of time, each called by the name of a prytany..[does] not belong to the Solonian Athens. 1886Athenæum 14 Aug. 216/1 A building called a Tholos, in which statues were dedicated and sacrifices were performed by the prutanies. |