ephebus
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of ephebus
From Latin; see origin at ephebe
Example Sentences
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Youths of the ephebus age are practicing leaping.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
He seems to have been regarded as the typical Athenian athlete or ephebus, and his contests as analogous to episodes of the gymnasium.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Ego mulier, ego adolescens, ego ephebus, ego puer, Ego guminasi fui flos, ego eram decus olei: 65Mihi ianuae frequentes, mihi limina tepida, Mihi floridis corollis redimita domus erat, Linquendum ubi esset orto mihi sole cubiculum.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The Organization of the Athenian Army.—After a young "ephebus" has finished his two years of service in the garrisons he returns home subject to call at the hour of need.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
This happy youth, just out of the schoolroom, and now to be enrolled as an armed ephebus, will be the model soon for some immortal bronze or marble.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
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