Bomonikes
βωμονίκης
Bomonikes (βωμονίκης). The Spartan youths, in remembrance of an old religious ceremony, used to be scourged at the altar of Artemis Orthia or Orthosia, a custom maintained even in the days of Pausanias (3.16.11). He who held out longest under the scourging was βωμονίκης. It was esteemed a great honour (ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα ἐπιδοξός ἐστι, Plut. Inst. Lac. 239, 32), and is mentioned as such in inscriptions (C. I. G. 1364).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.