ephebus

American  

[ih-fee-buhs] / ɪˈfi bəs /

noun

plural

ephebi

1. a youth of ancient Greece just entering manhood or commencing training for full Athenian citizenship.

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Etymology

Origin of ephebus

From Latin; see origin at ephebe

Example Sentences

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

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

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 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

Youths of the ephebus age are practicing leaping.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns