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‖ prytaneum Gr. Antiq.|prɪtəˈniːəm|
Also 9 -eium, -eion.
[L. prytanēum, a. Gr. πρυτανεῖον, f. πρύτανις: see next.]
The public hall of a Greek state or city, in which the sacred fire was kept burning; esp. in ancient Athens, the hall in which those who had done distinguished service to the state (and also foreign ambassadors) were entertained at the public charge, together with the successive presidents of the senate.
1600Holland Livy xli. 1108 At Cizicum, he gave freely to the Prytaneum. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. Levant II. ix. 335 A Publick House, or Prytaneum, wherein they ate on the great Feasts of the publick Games. 1846Grote Greece i. xiv. I. 380 He assigned to the new hero a consecrated spot in the strongest and most commanding portion of the Sicyonian prytaneium. 1865― Plato I. i. 13 Like the public hearth or perpetual fire maintained in the prytaneum of a Grecian city.
b. transf. A public hall or house.
1673Ray Journ. Low C. 86 Last of all feasts the Professors in the room called the Prytaneum, which is now used as the Divinity-Schools. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xi. 27 The hearth and Prytaneion of the English nation. 1888Athenæum 7 July 31/1 The poet and the novelist, the historian and the sage, will then live blithe and blameless in the Prytaneum. |