πρῠτᾰν-εῖον

πρῠτᾰν-εῖον, [dialect] Ion. [suff] πρῠτᾰν-ήϊον (also [full] βρυτανεῖον, Schwyzer 183.15 (Crete, iii B.C.), cf. Sch.Pi.N.11.1, and

A v. πρυτανεύω), τό, the magistrates' hall, town hall, Hdt.1.146, 3.57, 7.197, Ar.Ach. 125, Th. 2.15, D.19.32, etc.; ἐν πρυτανείῳ δειπνεῖν, σιτεῖσθαι, Ar. Pax 1084, Pl. Ap. 36d, cf. IG12.77.4,13;

ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς τὸ π. καλεῖν τινα D.50.13

, Aeschin.2.46, cf. Ar.Eq. 1404; καλέσαι ἐπὶ ξένια εἰς πρυτανεῖον prob. in IG12.19;

εἰς π. ἐκάλεσα D.19.234

; οὗ γὰρ μὴ τίθενται συμβολαί, π. ταῦτα πάντα προσαγορεύεται are called free tables, Timocl.8.18, cf. SIG4 (Cyzicus, vi B.C.): metaph.,

τῆς Ἑλλάδος αὐτὸ τὸ π. τῆς σοφίας Pl.Prt. 337d

, cf. Theopomp.Hist.267.

II a law-court at Athens, τὸ ἐπὶ πρυτανείῳ δικαστήριον, οἱ ἐκ πρυτανείου καταδικασθέντες, D.23.76, Decr. ap. And.1.78, cf. Plu.Sol.19.

2 πρυτανεῖα, τά, sum deposited by each party to a lawsuit before the suit began, π. τιθέναι, κατατιθέναι, IG12.22.33, 28.5, cf. Ar.Nu. 1136, 1180, V. 659, etc.;

ἄνευ πρυτανείων IG12.3.29

; π. τιθέτω ὁ διώκων τοῦ αὑτοῦ μέρους Lex ap. D.43.71; ἵν' αἱ θέσεις γίγνοιντο τῇ νουμηνίᾳ (sc. τῶν πρυτανείων) Ar.Nu. 1191; δέχεσθαι τὰ π. to receive this deposit, i.e. to allow the action to be brought, ib. 1197; π. ἐκτίνειν to pay this deposit, D.47.64.

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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