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Definition of Ephebi
1. ephebus [n] - See also: ephebus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephebi
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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