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Headword:
*)epidiete\s
h(bh=sai
Adler number: epsilon,2297
Translated headword: to be two years past puberty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning to be sixteen years old. For puberty lasts until fourteen. But the "ephebes" in
Athens were what eighteen-year-olds used to be called; and they would remain as ephebes for two years, after which they were entered into the deme register[s].
*)epidiete\s h(bh=sai: a)nti\ tou= e(kkai/deka e)tw=n gegone/nai. to\ ga\r h(bh=sai me/xri id# e)sti/n. a)ll' oi( e)/fhboi par' *)aqhnai/ois o)ktwkaidekaetei=s gino/menoi e)le/gonto: kai\ e)/menon me\n e)n toi=s e)fh/bois e)/th du/o, e)/peita ei)s to\ lhciarxiko\n e)gra/fonto grammatei=on.
Notes:
The entry, via Harpokration s.v., arises from ancient comment on this phrase in a law quoted in
Demosthenes 46.20 (where
e)pi\ di/etes is read as two words: see web address 1). Harpok. goes on to cite
Didymus and to quote
Hyperides fr. 192 Jensen.
See also
eta 19.
Web address 1
Keywords: children; chronology; constitution; daily life; definition; law; medicine; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 November 2000@08:24:50.
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