Meanings of ephebi in English

A band of young ephebi of the garrison eye us as we enter; but we seem neither Spartans nor Thebans and are not molested.

The Ephebi of Alexandria must make her feel the power of youth.

A little band of Ephebi were pacing to and fro before the house.

The bands of the Ephebi will support him to a man.

The Ephebi had behaved treacherously by taking sides with their foe.

Surely you must know the handsome, vigorous young Ephebi.

He could venture to do this; he knew the Ephebi-there was no traitor in their ranks.

Hermon, on the contrary, was overflowing with manly vigour, and the strongest among the Ephebi in the wrestling school.

Moreover, the quiet Caesarion, still subject to his tutor, had not understood how to win the favour of the Ephebi.

They were a band of the Ephebi, formerly commanded by Archibius, and to whose leadership more recently Dion had been elected.

Yet they must wait a little longer; for Caesarion had joined the Ephebi, and Antyllus had been invested with the toga virilis.

Statues surrounded the hurriedly erected palaestra where the Ephebi every morning practised their nude, anointed bodies in racing, wrestling, and throwing the discus.