eromenos /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/ noun1 •An adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.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. — 1996 formseromenoi