βρυτανεύω

πρῠτᾰν-εύω (also [full] βρυτανεύω, IG9(1).111 ([place name] Elatea), cf. πρυτανεῖον),

A to be πρύτανις or president, hold sway, ἀθανάτοισι among them, h.Ap.68; so of God, Ph.2.595.

2 to be chairman of a board, D.21.87; of a βουλή, POxy.2130.7 (iii A.D.), etc.

II at Athens, hold the presidency, prop. of the tribe in order of πρυτανεία in βουλή and

ἐκκλησία, ἔτυχεν.. ἡ φυλὴ [Ἀντιοχὶς] πρυτανεύουσα Pl.Ap. 32b

, cf. Grg. 473e;

Ἀκαμαντὶς ἐπρυτάνευε IG12.16

, Th.4.118, etc.: sts. of an individual member of the πρυτανεία, IG12.39.14, al., Antipho 6.45;

οἱ τότε πρυτανεύσαντες And.1.46

.

b generally, of the mover of a motion,

ὁ πρυτανεύσας ταῦτα καὶ πείσας D.15.3

.

2 π. περὶ εἰρήνης put the question on a motion for peace, this being the duty of the Prytanes, Ar.Ach.60;

εἰρήνην πρυτανεῦσαι Isoc.4.121

: hence,

3 π. τινὶ εἰρήνην obtain peace for another, Luc.Demon.9, cf. PStrassb.5.8 ([voice] Pass., iii A.D.);

φιλίαν τισί D.C.46.11

;

πᾶσι τὰ ἀγαθά Aristid.Or.26(14).109

; [αἱ Πλειάδες] τὸ ἔαρ ἡμῖν π. herald the spring, Procop.Gaz.p.141 B.

III generally, control, regulate, joined with διοικεῖν, D.5.6:—[voice] Pass., πρυτανεύεσθαι παρά τινος to suffer oneself to be guided by one, Id.9.60.

2 metaph., δεῖπνον χαριέντως πεπρυτανευμένον served daintily, Alex.110.4; of persons, to be entertained,

χορηγίᾳ βασιλικῇ Plu.2.602a

.

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: des. of a leading official, in Athens member of the governing committee of the council, `foreman, chief of affairs, prytan' (Dor. IA.); also name of a Lycian (Ε 678).

Other forms: Aeol. πρό-.

Compounds: Some compp., e.g. ναυ-πρύτανις = ναύαρχος (Pi.).

Derivatives: 1. Adj. πρυταν-ικός (IA. inscr.), - ειος (Aristid.) `belonging to p.'; 2. subst. - εῖον, Ion. -ήϊον n. `residence of p., city hall' (IA.), in Athens also name of a (judicial) court; τὰ πρυτανεῖα `legal costs' (Att.); here Πρυταν-ῖτις (Herm. Hist.), - εία (Syros) f. surn. of Έστία as protectress of the Prytaneion (cf. Redard 212); 3. Verb πρυταν-εύω `to be P., to lead something' (h. Ap. 68) with - εία, Ion. - ηΐη f. `(term of) office of a p.' (IA., Rhodes etc.), - ευμα = Lat. principatus (epigr. I^a), - εύς m. = πρύτανις (Rhodos; backformation, Bosshardt 77).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Cognate with the Etruscan title of an official purʮne, eprʮni, πρύτανις belongs undoubtedly to the Anatolian-Aegaean element of the Greek constitutional terminology (cf. βασιλεύς, ἄναξ, τύραννος and Schwyzer 62 a. 462). The Aeol. byform πρότανις (Att. inscr. incid. προταν-εύω, - εία) can, like Phoc. a. Cret. βρυτανεύω, - εῖον, represent the uncertain pronunciation of a foreign word (but it may also go back on popular association wih πρό `in front'). Earlier (s. Curtius 283 w. older lit., WP. 2, 36; also Schwyzer-Debrunner 505) considered as IE, with πρυ- as old byform of προ; here further διαπρύσιος, πρυμνός, πρυλέες. -- For Pre-Gr.-IE origin Heubeck Praegraeca 67f.; cf also Linderski Glotta 40, 157 ff., who tries to connect also Hatt. puri `lord'.

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