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πρυ^τα^ν-εύω (also βρυτανεύω , IG9(1).111 (Elatea), cf. πρυτανεῖον),
A.to be πρύτανις or president, hold sway, ἀθανάτοισι among them, h.Ap.68; so of God, Ph.2.595.
2. to be chairman of a board, D.21.87; of a βουλή, POxy.2130.7 (iii A.D.), etc.
II. at Athens, hold the presidency, prop. of the tribe in order of πρυτανεία in βουλή and “ἐκκλησία, ἔτυχεν . . ἡ φυλὴ [Ἀντιοχὶς] πρυτανεύουσα” Pl.Ap.32b, cf. Grg.473e; “Ἀκαμαντὶς ἐπρυτάνευε” IG12.16, Th.4.118, etc.: sts. of an individual member of the πρυτανεία, IG12.39.14, al., Antipho 6.45; “οἱ τότε πρυτανεύσαντες” And.1.46.
b. generally, of the mover of a motion, “ὁ πρυτανεύσας ταῦτα καὶ πείσας” D.15.3.
2. π. περὶ εἰρήνης put the question on a motion for peace, this being the duty of the Prytanes, Ar.Ach.60; “εἰρήνην πρυτανεῦσαι” Isoc.4.121: hence,
3. π. τινὶ εἰρήνην obtain peace for another, Luc.Demon.9, cf. PStrassb.5.8 (Pass., iii A.D.); “φιλίαν τισί” D.C.46.11; “πᾶσι τὰ ἀγαθά” Aristid.Or.26(14).109; [αἱ Πλειάδες] τὸ ἔαρ ἡμῖν π. herald the spring, Procop.Gaz.p.141 B.
III. generally, control, regulate, joined with διοικεῖν, D.5.6:—Pass., πρυτανεύεσθαι παρά τινος to suffer oneself to be guided by one, Id.9.60.
2. metaph., δεῖπνον χαριέντως πεπρυτανευμένον served daintily, Alex.110.4; of persons, to be entertained, “χορηγίᾳ βασιλικῇ” Plu.2.602a.
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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