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cephenes

cephenes · m

The drones in a swarm of bees

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

cēphēnes — Lewis & Short

cēphēnes, um, m., = khfh=nes.

1 The drones in a swarm of bees (pure Lat. fuci), Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.—

2 Cēphē-nes, um, a people of Ethiopia (so called from their king, Cepheus), Ov. M. 5, 1 and 97.—Hence, Cēphēnus, a, um, adj., Ethiopian: proceres, the Ethiopian chiefs, Ov. M. 4, 764.

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