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Headword: Ephêbos
Adler number: epsilon,3889
Translated headword: adolescent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a boy, a youth, [one] in his prime. From which [sc. comes the verb] e)fhbeu/w.
"Timasion, an Egyptian boy, had just departed from adolescence and had attained his youthful strength. His step-mother pressed her passion on him against his self-control and began to make his father angry."[1]
Greek Original:
Ephêbos: pais, neos, en autêi têi akmêi. hothen ephêbeuô. Timasiôn, meirakion Aiguption, ephêbou de arti hupapêiei kai tên hôran arti errôto. sôphronounti de autôi hê mêtruia erôsa epekeito kai chalepon ton patera epoiei.
Notes:
cf. epsilon 3888, epsilon 3890
[1] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.3; see more fully at tau 598.
Keywords: biography; children; chronology; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; women
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 24 January 2008@22:11:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 25 January 2008@05:43:35.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 19 November 2012@05:01:21.

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