For it was evening, and a man came bringing news to the Prytanes that Elatea was taken.
And the Prytanes were accustomed every day to meet in well-regulated banquets, which tended to the advantage of the state.
And the prytanes being alarmed, all agreed to put the question except Socrates the son of Sophroniscus; and he said that he would not, but that he would do everything according to the laws.
All magistrates should serve without remuneration for the period of the war, except the nine Archons and the Prytanes for the time being, who should each receive three obols a day.
The Prytanes receive an allowance of an obol for their maintenance.
When the committee was elected, their first proposal was that the Prytanes should be compelled to put to the vote any motion that was offered on behalf of the public safety.
The constitutional impediments having been thus violently overthrown, the question was regularly put by the prytanes to the assembly.
Sokratês could not be induced to withdraw his protest, so that the question was ultimately put by the remaining prytanes without his concurrence.
So intimidated were the prytanes by the incensed manifestations of the assembly, that all of them, except one, relinquished their opposition, and agreed to put the question.
The prytanesrefuse to put the question—their opposition overruled, all except that of Sokratês.
The prytanes pronounced the amendment of Euryptolemus to be carried.
We must recollect that in this case the prytanes were declared partisans.
Amongst other duties, it was the office of the Prytanes to look after the wants of the poor.
But, citizens, though I am immortal, I am dying of hunger; the Prytanesgive me naught.
The Prytanes again reminded him that charges of this nature must be decided by the First Assembly of the people; and, whether true or untrue, ought to have no influence on religious questions brought before the Fourth Assembly.
The Prytanes dismissed the assembly; and as they dispersed, Alcibiades scattered small coins among them.
The Prytanes informed the assembly that their vote must decide whether this avowed doctrine r endered Anaxagoras of Clazomenæ worthy of death.
But as you are here, watch him well, while I go with Clisthenes to the Prytanes and denounce him for his crimes.
You'll have no reason to be proud of your Helen, if you don't keep quiet until one of the Prytanes arrives.
It was the duty of the prytanes to assemble the senate, which was usually every day, and to keep order in the great assembly of the people.
The prytanes might forbid a man of notoriously bad character to speak.
Town Hall, or Prytaneum, where the Prytanes (the acting Committee of the Council) met, and other magistrates had their offices.
Both these were also duties of the Doric gerusia, to which the kings stood in nearly the same relation as the prytanes of Athens to the areopagites or ephetae.
Now Herodotus also mentions prytanes of the naucrari, who in early times directed the government of Athens.
The number of the prytanes was in general only one or two.
In all places the prytanes inherited from the kings the celebration of public sacrifices, which they generally performed in particular buildings in the market-place, on the common hearth of the state.
That the generals and prytanes should call an assembly of the people, in which the Athenians should first consult on the peace, and on the mode in which the embassy for putting an end to the war should be admitted.
Antiochean tribe happened to supply the Prytanes when you chose to condemn in a body the ten generals who had not taken off those that perished in the sea-fight, in violation of the law, as you afterward all thought.
When the Prytanes reported them to the Boule, feeling ran so high that some of the speakers said that without a trial they should be handed to the Eleven to be put to death.
The Thirty sat on the seats where the Prytanes are now.
Let the Thracians withdraw and return the day after to-morrow; the Prytanes declare the sitting at an end.
One of the offices of the Prytanes was to introduce those who asked admission to the Senate, but it would seem that none could obtain this favour without payment.
And with loud shouts they demanded that the Prytanes should close the sitting and then leapt over the rails in all directions.
The other, stunned with the blow, grew delirious in his speech, and at last the Prytanes and the guards dragged him out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prytanes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
