Noun
A boy who is a slave.
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An instance of this argumentative strategy occurs in Plato’s Meno, in an episode involving a slaveboy. Socrates asks a slaveboy to answer a series of questions about the relative proportions of sides of a square.
[…] passage in which a slaveboy — who has never had any geometry lessons — is led by a series of questions to invent for himself a theorem related to that of Pythagoras […]
When a slaveboy named Husrev died of illness near Azov in 1667, Evliya composed an elegy for him […]
A young male slave (submissive partner) in a BDSM relationship.