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- noun Plural form of
prytaneum .
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He therefore destroyed the prytanea, the senate house, and the magistracy of each individual township, built one common prytaneum and senate house for them all on the site of the present acropolis, called the city Athens, and instituted the Panathenaic festival common to all of them.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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