πρυτανεῖον: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=πρῠτᾰνεῖον, ιονιξ -ήιον, ου, τό, [[πρύτανις]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the presidents' [[hall]], [[town]]-[[hall]], Lat. [[curia]], Hdt., Thuc., etc.; [[consecrated]] to Hestia or [[Vesta]], to whom a [[perpetual]] [[fire]] was kept [[burning]] in it, [[which]] in Colonies was brought from the Prytaneion of the [[mother]]-[[city]]: at [[Athens]] the Prytanes had [[their]] meals [[there]], and [[there]] they entertained [[foreign]] ambassadors, Ar., Dem.: citizens also of [[high]] [[merit]], and the children of those who had [[fallen]] in [[battle]], were rewarded by a [[seat]] at [[this]] [[public]] [[table]], ἐν πρυτανείῳ δειπνεῖν, σιτεῖσθαι Ar., Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a law-[[court]] at [[Athens]], Dem., Plut.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[πρυτανεῖα]], τά, a sum of [[money]] deposited by [[each]] [[party]] to a [[lawsuit]] [[before]] the [[suit]] began, Ar., etc.; τιθέναι πρυτανεῖά τινι, i. e. [[bring]] an [[action]] [[against]], Ar.; ἵν' αἱ θέσεις γίγνοιντο τῇ νουμηνίᾳ (sc. τῶν πρυτανείων) Ar.; δέχεσθαι τὰ πρ. to [[receive]] [[this]] [[deposit]], i. e. to [[allow]] the [[action]] to be brought, Ar.