Britannica 11th · 11th edition

Ephebeum

Internet Archive OCR import

OCR text aligned to scanned pagesVol. 9, pp. 669-6691910–1911

Source evidence

Trace this article to the original publication

This entry is linked to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition. The cited range is Vol. 9, pp. 669-669.

Open source textOpen original scans

EPHEBEUM (from Gr. ifafios, a young man), in architecture, a large hall in the ancient Palaestra furnished with scats (Vitruvius v. u), the length of which should be a third larger than the width. It served for the exercises of youths of from sixteen to eighteen years of age.