ephebus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ĕphēbus, i (gen. plur. contr. ephebūm, Stat. Th. 4, 232), m.,

= ἔφηβος, a male Greek youth from 18 to 20 years of age (cf.: puer, adolescens, juvenis, adultus, pubes), Ter. Eun. 824; Cic. Fl. 21, 51; id. N. D. 1, 28, 79; Suet. Aug. 98; id. Ner. 12; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 171; Ov. A. A. 1, 147 al.: is postquam excessit ex ephebis (after the Gr. ἐξελθεῖν ἐξ ἐφήβων), i. e. after he had come to the age of manhood , Ter. And. 51 Ruhnk. (also cited in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327).

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