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Noun: ephebeia
  1. In ancient Greece, a state institution organized to train freeborn youths between the ages of 18 and 20 for military and administrative service.
    "This dissertation provides a new diachronic history of the Athenian ephebeia, a state-sponsored and -directed system of military training for ephebes."

Type of: school

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