ephebus
Americannoun
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ephebi
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Etymology
Origin of ephebus
From Latin; see origin at ephebe
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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 William Stearns Davis
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 William Stearns Davis
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
Youths of the ephebus age are practicing leaping.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
He is an ephebus no longer, but a full-fledged citizen, and all the vicissitudes of Athenian life are before him.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
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
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
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
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
The ephebi took part in some of the most important Athenian festivals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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