Cephenus

cēphēnes, um, m., = kêphênes.

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.