Definition of Ephebi

1. Noun. (plural of ephebe) ¹

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Definition of Ephebi

1. ephebus [n] - See also: ephebus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephebi

eperythrozoon
eperythrozoonosis
epexegeses
epexegesis
epexegetic
epexegetical
epexegetically
epha
ephah
ephahs
ephapse
ephaptic
ephas
ephebe
ephebes
ephebi (current term)
ephebic
ephebiphobia
ephebiphobias
epheboi
ephebology
ephebophilic
ephebos
ephebus
ephedras
ephedrin
ephedrine

Literary usage of Ephebi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old Greek Education by John Pentland Mahaffy (1905)
"THE LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION MILITARY TRAINING OF THE ephebi. ... This is the discipline of the ephebi, or grown-up boys, concerning which so much has been ..."

2. Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the by Pierre-Henri Larcher (1844)
"... Pausanias informs us in two places, that in it the ephebi, ' the youths,' sacrificed to Mars. In the first of the passages alluded to 8 he calls it ..."

3. A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis (1914)
"The " ephebi." — The Athenian education then is admirably adapted to make the average lad a useful and worthy citizen, and to make him modest, alert, ..."

4. Archæologia Græca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter (1751)
"... are to be of a certain Weight, a Go-it to weigh fifty ij.vt£, and two Sheep forty-eight. The Oath to be taken by the ephebi. I'LL never do any Thing to ..."

5. University Life in Ancient Athens: Being the Substance of Four Oxford Lectures by William Wolfe Capes (1922)
"... a right the personal service of her sons, and soon changed, in the case of the ephebi,the essential character of her educational routine. Many admitted. ..."

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