Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄνηβος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄνηβος ἄνηβη ἄνηβον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + νηβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(/bh

Sense

  1. not yet come to man's estate, beardless

Examples

  • καὶ τοῖσ μὲν τῶν ἀγενείων τὰ δύο τῶν τριῶν τοῦ μήκουσ τοῦ δρόμου θήσομεν, τοῖσ δὲ παισὶ τὰ τούτων ἡμίσεα, τοξόταισ τε καὶ ὁπλίταισ ἁμιλλωμένοισ, γυναιξὶν δέ, κόραισ μὲν ἀνήβοισ γυμναῖσ στάδιον καὶ δίαυλον καὶ ἐφίππιον καὶ δόλιχον, ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ δρόμῳ ἁμιλλωμέναισ, ταῖσ δὲ τριακαιδεκέτεσι μέχρι γάμου μενούσαισ κοινωνίασ μὴ μακρότερον εἴκοσι ἐτῶν μηδ’ ἔλαττον ὀκτωκαίδεκα· (Plato, Laws, book 8 33:4)
  • " καθάπτεται δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἐφεσίων ἐπὶ τῷ τὸν ἑταῖρον ἐκβαλεῖν Ἑρμό‐ δωρον, ἐν οἷσ φησιν, "ἄξιον Ἐφεσίοισ ἡβηδὸν ἀποθανεῖν πᾶσι καὶ τοῖσ ἀνήβοισ τὴν πόλιν καταλιπεῖν, οἵτινεσ Ἑρμόδωρον ἄνδρα ἑωυτῶν ὀνήιστον ἐξέβαλον λέγοντεσ, Ἡμέων μηδὲ εἷσ ὀνήιστοσ ἔστω· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. a'. HRAKLEITOS 2:2)
  • ἔθοσ δ’ ἐστὶν αὐτοῖσ ἀγῶνα τοξείασ προτιθέναι τοῖσ ἀνήβοισ παισί. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 18:12)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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