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κηφήν?

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: kēphēn

Principal Part: κηφήν κηφῆνος

Structure: κηφην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a drone, a drone, a lazy fellow

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τί μ ἀμφιβάλλεις χερσίν, ὦ τάλαινα παῖ, ὄρνις ὅπως κηφῆνα πολιόχρων κύκνος· (Euripides, episode 6:18)
  • οὐκ ὦφθαι δέ φησιν οὔτε μέλισσαν οὔτε κηφῆνα ὀχεύοντας, ὅθεν οὐκ εἶναι διιδεῖν πότερα αὐτῶν ἄρρενα ἢ θήλεα, πόθεν δ ὅτι οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἥσσονες μελισσῶν αἰεὶ γὰρ αὗται τὴν ἰσότητα τοῦ βίου τηροῦσιν, οὐ μεταβαλλόμεναι, ἀλλ ἀγείρουσαι καὶ ἀδιδάκτως ποιοῦσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 2:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔχεις κηφῆνα παλίμπλυτον, ἀλλ ἄρα τέχνης ἄξιον ἀρχαίης λείψανον ἠμφίεσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 40 2:1)
  • δήμῳ δ ὕβριν μὲν οὐδεμίαν εἰς πολίτας οὐδὲ δήμευσιν ἀλλοτρίων οὐδὲ κοινῶν διανέμησιν ὁ πολιτικὸς ἐφήσει κατὰ δύναμιν, ἀλλὰ πείθων καὶ διδάσκων καὶ δεδιττόμενος διαμαχεῖται ταῖς τοιαύταις ἐπιθυμίαις, οἱάς οἱ περὶ Κλέωνα βόσκοντες καὶ αὔξοντες πολύν, ὥς φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, κηφῆνα τῇ πόλει κεκεντρωμένον ἐνεποίησαν. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 24 8:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔχεις κηφῆνα παλίμπλυτον, ἀλλά τι τέχνης ἄξιον ἀρχαίης λείψανον ἠμφίεσας. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 7082)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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