The corpus record

ἡβ-άσκω

ebasko

come to puberty

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Where it lives

Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k

What it meant — LSJ

come to puberty, become marriageable

come to puberty, Hp. Aph. 3.28. X. An. 4.6.1; παῖς ἡβάσκων ἄρτι ib. 7.4.7; of women, become marriageable, Ruf. ap. Orib. inc. 2.2.

metaph., νῦν ἔθʼ ἡβάσκει κακόν (read by Gal. for ἡβᾷ σοι) E. Alc. 1085; ἡμῖν ἡβάσκει πενίη AP 6.30 (Maced.); ποιητικὴ οὔπω ἡβάσκουσα Philostr. Her. Praef.

3 reach, show the outward signs of, manhood

reach, or show the outward signs of, manhood, Aristaenet. 1.11, Philostr. Im. 2.7.

In the wild

ἡβάσκοντος · hēbaskontos Xenophon, Anabasis 4.6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1827)
ἡβάσκοντα · hēbaskonta Xenophon, Anabasis 7.4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3420)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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