ephebus
noun
a youth of ancient Greece just entering manhood or commencing training for full Athenian citizenship.
ephebi
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pluralof ephebus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At this period the college of ephebi was a miniature city; its members called themselves “citizens,” and it possessed an archon, strategus, herald and other officials, after the model of ancient Athens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Inscriptions attest a continually decreasing number of ephebi, and with the admission of foreigners the college lost its representative national character.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
We have no account respecting other Doric towns, and merely know that the classes of the ephebi at Cyrene were called from the number of each, the “three hundred.”
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
In Roman imperial times the ephebi had to deliver a speech at the Haloa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
From this circumstance, according to Hesychius, the ephebi in the agele were called ἀγελαστοὶ, for which Meursius reads ἀγελαῖοι from ἀγελάζω, without any authority.1451.See book III. ch.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
