Crossword clues for ephebe
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young man," 1690s, from Greek ephebos (see ephebic).
Wiktionary
n. A young man, especially an 18-20 year old in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
Wikipedia
Ephebe (from the Greek ephebos ἔφηβος (plural: epheboi ἔφηβοι), anglicised as ephebe (plural: ephebes), or Latinate ephebus (plural: ephebi) is the term for an adolescent male.
Ephebe may refer to:
- Ephebe (lichen), a genus of lichen in the family Lichinaceae
- An anglicization of ephebos, a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in antiquity
- Kritios Boy, an ancient Greek sculpture, also called Ephebe of Kritios
- Marathon Boy, an ancient Greek sculpture, also called Ephebe of Marathon
- Ephebus (personal name)
- The fictional Discworld country Ephebe
- A novel, Efebos, only part of which survives, by Polish composer Karol Szymanowski
Usage examples of "ephebe".
As THE FOOL steps continually off his cliff and into space, so the Ephebe is always a presence attempting to fill the absence that has brought him forth.
Though she has already brought him his own breakfast in bed, kissed him, watched him eat it with a kind of unfashionable pride in his appetite, the Ephebe sometimes finds himself envying them what he thinks of as an intensely formal experience of her.
At that moment the train enters a tunnel, and the Ephebe can see only himself, reflected in the window.
The Ephebe falls asleep again for a moment, dreams briefly of the old man and his strange energetic machine, racing alongside the train but this time looking in, then wakes suddenly in the horrified knowledge that he has cried out in his sleep and the whole carriage has heard him.
But as his cab arrives, and he sees the light dancing in the raindrops on its bonnet, the Ephebe cannot repress a shudder.
It is an illusion: but suddenly the Ephebe seems to be looking through two arches at a hedge some way behind the wall.
In this confused, ideal moment, the Ephebe believes he may go anywhere.
When called upon to act, he was as vigorous as a twenty-year-old ephebe, and if crossed, would erupt in a deafening string of oaths that would curl the beard of the most blasphemous Spartan in the vicinity.
As ephebes, you will be stationed to defend the outermost frontiers of the polis.
The instructor stood in the shadows, seeming to glare at us with disgust, until he pointed to one of the larger ephebes standing in the front row.
The beat was taken up immediately by the ephebes, who clapped their hands and stomped their feet in the same rhythm.
All these maneuvers were met with a rising volume of din from the ephebes, who in their excitement increased the speed of their stomping, losing the sense of the steady beat until the noise was no longer a distinct thumping but rather a prolonged roar.
Though she has already brought him his own breakfast in bed, kissed him, watched him eat it with a kind of unfashionable pride in his appetite, the Ephebe sometimes finds himself envying them what he thinks of as an intensely formal experience of her.