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Bomonikes (βωμονίκης). Among the rigorous exercises to which the Spartan youths were subjected was a scourging before the altar (Bomos) of Artemis Orthia or Orthosia. He who held out longest under the scourging was styled Bomonikes—a great honour. See Plutarch, Inst. Lac. 239, 32.
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