Prytanes
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On the Embassy (Greek)
also I shall move that on the arrival of the ambassadors the prytanes call a meeting of the assembly for two successive days to consider not only the question of peace, but the question of an alliance also;
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Athenian presiding officials involved in assembly procedure and legal revision.
and the prytanes are required to call a meeting of the assembly, writing at the head of the call, For Nomothetae;
The disorder of the public men can no longer be controlled by the laws, nor by the prytanes, nor by the presiding officers, nor by the presiding tribe, the tenth part of the city.
the man who throws in my face the friendship of Alexander, this man Demosthenes, stole away the opportunities of the city by making the motion that the prytanes call an assembly for the eighth day of Elaphebolion, the day of the sacrifice to Asclepius, and the introductory day of the festival —the sacred day—a thing that no man remembers ever to have been done before.
On the Embassy
The presiding committee of the Athenian Council responsible for convening meetings of the Assembly, directed by decree to call the sessions on the peace.
also I shall move that on the arrival of the ambassadors the prytanes call a meeting of the assembly for two successive days to consider not only the question of peace, but the question of an alliance also;
Now in contrast with this, read, if you please, the decree moved by Demosthenes, in which he orders the prytanes, after the celebration of the City Dionysia and the session of the assembly in the precinct of Dionysus, to call two meetings of the assembly, the one on the eighteenth, the other on the nineteenth;
On the Mysteries
Officials who manage Assembly procedure, arrest servants, and occupy the Tholus.
and the Prytanes arrested the women-servants in the house which the criminals had used as their base.
so the Prytanes decided to clear the meeting of non-initiates and themselves fetch the lad indicated by Pythonicus.
The Knights were to be mustered at the Anaceum by trumpet before nightfall, while the Council would take up its quarters on the Acropolis for the night, and the Prytanes in the Tholus.
Against Meidias
Athenian officials charged in the cited law with convening the Assembly after the Pandia.
The Prytanes shall call a meeting of the Assembly in the temple of Dionysus on the day next after the Pandia.
Hellenica
The presiding committee of the Athenian Council whose members are pressured into putting the generals' collective trial to an unlawful vote.
Then the Prytanes, stricken with fear, agreed to put the question,—all of them except Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus;
Furthermore, when some of the Prytanes refused to put the question to the vote in violation of the law, Callixeinus again mounted the platform and urged the same charge against them;