ephebe

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His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe.

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  1. noun A youth between 18 and 20 years of age in ancient Greece.

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  • He moved to Athens when he was 18 to fulfill his required military service as an ephebe, but left again shortly thereafter when his parents wer expelled from Samos, along with the other Athenians, when Athens lost the island to Colophon for a time and continued to study philosophy and began to attract disciples. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe. —  Ulysses
  • Created about 20-10 B.C., the Roman bronze figure of an ephebe (youth) was excavated in 1925 in a well-appointed residence, now called the House of the Ephebe, off Pompeii's Via dell'Abbondanza. —  Art Knowledge News
 

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  1. Latin ephēbus, from Greek ephēbos : ep-, epi-, epi- + hēbē, early manhood.

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  1. from Greek ἒφηβος, a youth, from ἐπί, upon, + ῆβη, youth: see Hebe.
 

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