Significatio vocis cēphēnes | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. the drones in a swarm of bees
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2. a people of Ethiopia
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Exempla

“Cetera turba cum formam capere coepit, nymphae vocantur, ut fuci sirenes aut cephenes.”

They begin to take the form of the crowd with the other things, called pupae, such as sirens or drones.

“Dumque ea Cephenum medio⟳ Danaeius heros agmine commemorat, fremida regalia turba”

While Perseus, the hero, surrounded at the feast by Ethiopians, narrated this, a raging swarm filled the royal courts.

Gradus CEFR