Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Greece: A chief magistrate or priest in several states, as Rhodes, Lycia, and Miletus.
- noun A member, during the term of presidency of his section, of one of the ten sections of fifty each into which the Senate of Five Hundred was divided at Athens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
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- noun
official in ancient Athens
Etymologies
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Examples
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When he was acting as supreme magistrate - "prytanis" they call him-he had, after many speeches, induced the Rhodians to abandon all those hoses of support from monarchs, which had so often proved vain, and hold to the alliance with Rome, the only one in the whole world which they could depend on for strength and fidelity.
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Iiuiiginem autem prytanis, hoc est sunmii apud Smymasos magistmtus, sedentis esse autuuiat.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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"When Menophilus was prytanis, on the first day of the month Artemisius, this decree was made by the people:
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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"When Cratippus was prytanis, on the first day of the month Desius, the decree of the praetors was this:
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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"When Artermon was prytanis, on the first day of the month Leneon,
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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