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1.NounA boy who feels philia or more specifically anterōs, for his paederastic lover.
2.Noun↑ 1999: Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality, edited by John Corvino (1999; Rowman & Littlefield; →ISBN, 9780847684830), page 370, footnote № 25 To be sure, the pederastic ethos of classical Athens did not prohibit a willing boy from responding enthusiastically to his lover’s physical attentions: Aristophanes himself maintains that a philerast both “enjoys” and “welcomes” (khairein, aspazesthai: 191e–192b) his lover’s embraces. But that ethos did stipulate that whatever enthusiasm a boy exhibited for sexual contact with his lover sprang from sources other than sexual desire. The distinction between “welcoming” and “desiring” a lover’s caresses, as it applies to the motives for a boy’s willingness, spelled the difference between decency and degeneracy; that distinction is worth emphasizing here because the failure of modern interpreters to observe it has led to considerable misunderstanding (as when historians of sexuality, for example, misreading the frequent depictions on Attic black-figure pottery of a boy leaping into his lover’s arms, take those paintings to be evidence for the strength of the junior partner’s sexual desire).