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Even within the narrow limits of the characters most familiar to ancient comedy—the 'amans ephebus,' the 'meretrix blanda,' the 'fallax servus,' the 'bragging captain,' the 'parasite,' the 'leno,' the 'old men'—good, kindly, severe, genial, sensual and disreputable,—we find great individual differences.

Miser, ah miser! querendum est etiam atque etiam, anime: Ego puber, ego adolescens, ego ephebus, ego puer; Ego gymnasii fui flos, ego eram decus olei; Mihi januæ frequentes, mihi limina tepida, Mihi floridis corollis redimita domus erat, Linquendum ubi esset, orto mihi Sole, cubiculum.

Euripides became officially an "Ephêbus," or "Youth."

It is not improbable that the union of strength and beauty so conspicuously exhibited in the ideal forms of the two children of Latona was suggested by the peculiar character of the Doric education; and that the artist represented the god as an Ephebus, whose skill in the chorus and on the field of battle was exactly equal.

He seems to have been regarded as the typical Athenian athlete or ephebus, and his contests as analogous to episodes of the gymnasium.