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πρυ^τα^ν-εῖον , Ion. πρυ^τα^ν-ήϊον (also βρυτανεῖον , Schwyzer 183.15 (Crete, iii B.C.), cf. Sch.Pi.N.11.1, and
A.v. πρυτανεύω), τό, the magistrates' hall, town hall, Hdt.1.146, 3.57, 7.197, Ar.Ach.125, Th. 2.15, D.19.32, etc.; ἐν πρυτανείῳ δειπνεῖν, σιτεῖσθαι, Ar.Pax1084, Pl. Ap.36d, cf. IG12.77.4,13; “ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς τὸ π. καλεῖν τινα” D.50.13, Aeschin.2.46, cf. Ar.Eq.1404; καλέσαι ἐπὶ ξένια εἰς πρυτανεῖον prob. in IG12.19; “εἰς π. ἐκάλεσα” D.19.234; οὗ γὰρ μὴ τίθενται συμβολαί, π. ταῦτα πάντα προσαγορεύεται are called free tables, Timocl.8.18, cf. SIG4 (Cyzicus, vi B.C.): metaph., “τῆς Ἑλλάδος αὐτὸ τὸ π. τῆς σοφίας” Pl.Prt.337d, cf. Theopomp.Hist.267.
II. a law-court at Athens, τὸ ἐπὶ πρυτανείῳ δικαστήριον, οἱ ἐκ πρυτανείου καταδικασθέντες, D.23.76, Decr. ap. And.1.78, cf. Plu.Sol.19.
2. πρυτανεῖα, τά, sum deposited by each party to a lawsuit before the suit began, π. τιθέναι, κατατιθέναι, IG12.22.33, 28.5, cf. Ar.Nu.1136, 1180, V.659, etc.; “ἄνευ πρυτανείων” IG12.3.29; π. τιθέτω ὁ διώκων τοῦ αὑτοῦ μέρους Lex ap. D.43.71; ἵν᾽ αἱ θέσεις γίγνοιντο τῇ νουμηνίᾳ (sc. τῶν πρυτανείων) Ar.Nu. 1191; δέχεσθαι τὰ π. to receive this deposit, i.e. to allow the action to be brought, ib.1197; π. ἐκτίνειν to pay this deposit, D.47.64.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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