ephebi
- plural of ephebus.
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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
There were fifty ephebi, in two troops of five-and-twenty, acting as body-guard of the leader of the embassy.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
His studies would be regarded as completed when he attained the age of eighteen, and took rank among the ephebi or eirenes of his native city.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 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 Müller, Karl Otfried
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
