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πρυτανείας (prytaneias)

πρυτανείας is an Ancient Greek form of πρυτάνειος, meaning “belonging to the prytanes”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of πρυτανεία, “presidency; presidencies”.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.10: καὶ ἔχει ὧδε· “Ἐπʼ Ἀρρενίδου ἄρχοντος, ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀκαμαντίδος πέμπτης πρυτανείας, Μαιμακτηριῶνος δεκάτῃ ὑστέρᾳ, τρίτῃ καὶ εἰκοστῇ τῆς πρυτανείας, ἐκκλησία κυρία, τῶν προέδρων ἐπεψήφισεν Ἵππω …

All forms of πρυτάνειος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.