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Headword: *)/efhbos
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:
*)/efhbos: pai=s, ne/os, e)n au)th=| th=| a)kmh=|. o(/qen e)fhbeu/w. *timasi/wn, meira/kion *ai)gu/ption, e)fh/bou de\ a)/rti u(paph/|ei kai\ th\n w(/ran a)/rti e)/rrwto. swfronou=nti de\ au)tw=| h( mhtruia\ e)rw=sa e)pe/keito kai\ xalepo\n to\n pate/ra e)poi/ei.
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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