ephebus
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ĕphēbus: i (
I gen. plur. contr. ephebūm, Stat. Th. 4, 232), m., = ἔφηβος, a male Greek youth from 18 to 20 years of age (cf.: puer, adolescens, juvenis, adultus, pubes), Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 8; Cic. Fl. 21, 51; id. N. D. 1, 28, 79; Suet. Aug. 98; id. Ner. 12; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 171; Ov. A. A. 1, 147 al.: is postquam excessit ex ephebis (after the Gr. ἐξελθεῖν ἐξ ἐφήβων), i. e. after he had come to the age of manhood, Ter. And. 1, 1, 24 Ruhnk. (also cited in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327).
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ĕphēbus,¹² ī, m. (ἔφηβος), adolescent [de seize à vingt ans]: Cic. Nat. 1, 79 || en Grèce, jeune homme de 18 ans astreint à un service militaire, v. Ter. Eun. 824, de 18 à 20 ans ; excedere ex ephebis Ter. Andr. 51, sortir de l’adolescence, entrer dans la jeunesse. gén. pl. ephebum Stat. Th. 4, 232.
Latin > German (Georges)
ephēbus, ī, m. (εφηβος), der mannbare Jüngling, von 16 bis 20 Jahren, gew. v. Griechen, greges epheborum, Cic.: nitidi ephebi, veste pullā candidi, Varro fr.: postquam ephebus est factus, Nep.: exire ex ephebis, Plaut.: excedere ex ephebis, Ter.: deducere ephebum in gymnasium, Petron.: ephebum mulierare, Varro. – / Genet. Plur. ephebûm, Stat. Theb. 4, 232.
