ephebum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ephebus, ephebi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Greece
boy (Greek) at age of puberty; youth; adolescent (age 18-20 by Athenian law);
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...audet temptare parentes: tanta in muneribus fiducia. nullus ephebum deformem saeua castrauit in arce tyrannus, nec praetextatum rapuit..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...tanquam unum ex philosophis intueretur. Jam ego coeperam ephebum in gymnasium deducere, ego studia eius ordinare, ego docere..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...natorum fata parentes hortanturque mori, deflent iamque omnis ephebum turba, coronato contenta est funere mater. frena tenent duplexque..."