[Meaning someone] just reaching the peak, youthful.
*prwqh/bhs: a)/rti a)kma/zwn, ne/os.
cf.
Synagoge pi748, and
Photius,
Lexicon pi1443, both of which offer only the first of the two glosses on this masculine nominative singular. See also already
Hesychius pi4133, who gives that same glossing phrase in the masculine nominative plural to the plural
prwqh=bai (quoted from
Homer,
Odyssey 8.263; cf. the D
scholia there).
The headword literally means first-youthed, a concept difficult to convey with a single English word. Literary attestations of this form of the word prior to the Suda are infrequent, but include Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 1.132, and Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead 15.2.
For a different form of the same word see
pi 2942.
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