In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.
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Eromenos
//ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs//
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French
1 entries- éromène noun (the younger partner in a pederastic relationship)
Swedish
1 entries- eromenos noun (the younger partner in a pederastic relationship)
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