1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EPHEBI (Gr. trl, and <J/3ij, i.e. " those who have reached puberty "), a name specially given, in Athens and other Greek towns, to a class" of young men from eighteen to twenty years of age, who formed a sort of college under state control. On the completion of his seventeenth year the Athenian youth attained his civil majority, and, provided he belonged to the first three property classes and passed the scrutiny (dontucuria) as to age, EPHEMERIS— EPHESIANS civic descent and physical capability, was enrolled on the…
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