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What does ephebic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts.
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You can't be too careful, with uncastrated, ephebic sophomore mules, wherever you go in the world.
Knowledge of the ephebic system at Athens, a paramilitary youth organization, is in the main based on epigraphic material.
Another Athenian relief which shows Herakles next to his columnar shrine, and a boy in front of him, probably refers to the oinisteria and the ephebic introduction.
The ephebic androgyny of the high classic Apollo turned into effeminacy in Hellenistic art.
For children and youths under the ephebic age there was no practical regulation of schools or palaestra by the state.
But there is a danger, when clicking among the scrapyard channels, that I will be suddenly confronted with those ephebic 118 twins who run around, pause, pose and run around again.

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