Prytaneum

And if I am to estimate the penalty fairly, I should say that maintenance in the Prytaneum is the just return.

The Apology 2006

In Grecian cities there was a common hall, called the Prytaneum, in which the members of the government had their meals at the expense of the state, and here too was the Hestia, or public hearth, with its fire, by means of which those meals were prepared.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

And if I am to estimate the penalty justly, I say that maintenance in the Prytaneum is the just return.

The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions, by B. Jowett. Plato 1871

And if I am to estimate the penalty fairly, I should say that maintenance in the Prytaneum is the just return.

Apology 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

(M4) In the centre of most towns of Greece (5) stood the Prytaneum or magistrates’ hall, and in the Prytaneum was the sacred hearth to which attached such reverence that in the most solemn oaths the name of Hestia was invoked even before that of Zeus. (

On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay 1906

My father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town – Hall].

Les Miserables 2008

Peparethus also the sea retired, but no inundation followed; an earthquake, however, overthrew a part of the wall, the Prytaneum, and a few houses.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

We should be the first charge on the state just as Socrates declared that he should be kept in the Prytaneum at the public expense.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

There can be no reward so fitting as maintenance in the Prytaneum, O men of Athens, a reward which he deserves far more than the citizen who has won the prize at Olympia in the horse or chariot race, whether the chariots were drawn by two horses or by many.

The Apology 2006

For the assemblies in Crete called Andria, those in Sparta called Phiditia, were secret consultations and aristocratical assemblies; such, I suppose, as the Prytaneum and Thesmothesium here at Athens.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004