Πρυτανεύσητε
you would be prytaneis
Translated by David Whitehead29 Oct 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you would examine, you would act, you would issue orders: for everything was handled by the prytaneis.1 Demosthenes used the word too.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πρυτανεύσητε· σκέψησθε, πράξητε, χρηματίσητε· πάντα γὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν πρυτάνεων διεπράττετο. ἐχρήσατο δὲ τῇ λέξει καὶ Δημοσθένης.
Betacode
*prutaneu/shte: ske/yhsqe, pra/chte, xrhmati/shte: pa/nta ga\r u(po\ tw=n pruta/newn diepra/tteto. e)xrh/sato de\ th=| le/cei kai\ *dhmosqe/nhs.
Notes (2)
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 60, where the headword occurs (and has specific overtones of setting up a debate/vote). See the text at web address 1. Headword and glosses are aorist subjunctive, second person plural.
- 1For the Athenian prytaneis see pi 2992, pi 2996, pi 3000. ↩
- 2Adler cites Demosthenes 15.3; one could add 5.6, 9.60, 21.87. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
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- π2993Πρυτανευούσηςcontrolling"With the nature of the terrain not allowing them to go farther, but measuring the length of the trench for them and controlling [it] appropriately [...]." And elsewhere: "but the envoys came with an intent to manage…
- π2999ΠρυτανεῖονPrytaneion, Prytaneum; depositThesmotheteion, Tholos. Among the Athenians [sc. the Prytaneion was] a small public building, where those who attain the appropriate honor among them used to be given dinner at public expense. Attaining such a reward…
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