The corpus record — Latin

ephebus

a male Greek youth

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Where it lives

Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Peristephanon Liber 5 · 2.85/10k
Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k
Satyricon 6 · 1.97/10k
Pro L. Flacco 2 · 1.83/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕphēbus — Lewis & Short

ĕphēbus, i (

I gen. plur. contr. ephebūm, Stat. Th. 4, 232), m., = e)/fhbos, a male Greek youth from 18 to 20 years of age (cf.: puer, adolescens, juvenis, adultus, pubes), Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 8; Cic. Fl. 21, 51; id. N. D. 1, 28, 79; Suet. Aug. 98; id. Ner. 12; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 171; Ov. A. A. 1, 147 al.: is postquam excessit ex ephebis (after the Gr. e)celqei=n e)c e)fh/bwn), i. e. after he had come to the age of manhood, Ter. And. 1, 1, 24 Ruhnk. (also cited in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327).

In the wild

epheborum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.5.p1
ephebis Terence, Andria 1.1
ephebum Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.170
ephebi Horace, Epistulae 2.1.171
ephebos Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.845
ephebum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.286

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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