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LNS

cēphēnis, cēphēnis

cephenes

κηφῆνες

Mostly Plural

noun (m., 3^rd Greek declension)

The drones in a swarm of bees

Abbreviations

cēphēnes, um, m., = κηφῆνες. The drones in a swarm of bees (pure Lat. fuci), Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.

— 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.