[A term for] the more senior of the boys.
*melei/rhnes: tw=n pai/dwn oi( presbu/teroi.
sc. in
Sparta. The word (which should have double lambda rather than the single one of the Suda mss) means "(those) about to be
eirenes" -- the
eiren (
epsiloniota 189) being the Spartan 20-year-old.
This entry perhaps, as Adler suggests, derives from glosses on
Plutarch,
Lycurgus 17, where the names of all six teenage year-groups are given.
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