ε3890Ἔφηβος
adolescent, ephebe
A Cilician saying: 'where are you running to? [Is it] against the adolescent?' It was said of Apollonius and it had the force of a proverb. The law allows only the free to become ephebes. It was necessary for the ephebe…
Ἔφηβος. Κιλίκιος λόγος· ποῖ τρέχεις; ἢ ἐπὶ τὸν ἔφηβον; ἐπὶ Ἀπολλωνίῳ ἐλέγετο καὶ παροιμιώδη τιμὴν ἔσχεν. μόνοις δὲ ἐλευθέροις ἐφίησιν ὁ νόμος ἐφηβεύειν. ἐχρῆν δὲ τὸν ἔφηβον ἐν τῇ…