English

Noun

eromenos ‎(plural eromenoi)

1. (historical, Greek history) An adolescent boy who was courted by an older man, or was in an erotic relationship with him.
   • 1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press (1998), ISBN 0-252-02209-2, page 1:

     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.

See also

• erastes