Prytanis Sentence Examples

The building in which this fire was kept was the Prytaneum, and the chieftain (the king or prytanis)probably made it his residence.

Prytanis was also the name of a legendary king of Sparta of the Eurypontid or Proclid line.

The government subsequently passed into the hands of a small corporation of nobles descended from a former king Bacchis, and known as the Bacchidae, who nominated annually a Prytanis (president) from among their number.