cephenes

cēphēnes, um, m., = κηφῆνες.

• • • 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.