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Headword:
Kêphên
Adler number: kappa,1561
Translated headword: drone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the wild bee.[1]
[Meaning someone] idle, unsuccessful, fickle.[2]
"Belisarius said with a laugh: '[it is] not right that the drones are destroyed by others with a great effort, while others benefit from the honey on the basis of no travail'."[3] He said this to protect the booty, so that it would be properly distributed.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "[like] stingless drones", [meaning like] those sitting and guarding the exit of the bees. For guards [are] ouroi. So kouthouroi [are] those guarding the doors.[4] From this, too, a man capable of doing nothing is said to be [sc. a drone].[5]
Greek Original:Kêphên: hê agria melissa. argos, apraktos, meteôros. hoti Belisarios xun gelôti eipen: ou dikaion tous kêphênas men huph' heterôn ponôi megalôi apollusthai, allous de tou melitos oudemiai talaipôriai oninasthai. touto de eipe phulassôn tên leian, hopôs axiôs dianemoito. kai Kêphênesi kouthouroisi, tois kathezomenois kai phulattousi tên tôn melissôn exodon. ouroi gar hoi phulakes. kouthouroi oun hoi tas thuras phulassontes. legetai de ek toutou kai anthrôpos ho mêden dran dunamenos.
Notes:
See also
kappa 1910,
kappa 2176. ('Kephenes', an old name for the Persians noted by
Herodotus 7.61.2-3, is unconnected.)
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Laws 901A.
[2] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; see the references at
Photius kappa685 Theodoridis.
[3]
Procopius,
History of the wars of Justininan 6.7.34 (web address 1). For Belisarius see generally
beta 233. In early 538 CE, Belisarius instructs his general Ioannes (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Ioannes(46)) to invade Picenum (cf.
pi 1592 and
pi 1593), plunder and enslave, and attack defended fortifications where encountered, but to preserve all of the booty thus collected; cf. Kaldellis (335).
[4] From
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon (and
Photius); cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Laws 901A.
[5] cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Republic 552B.
.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 June 2009@05:40:35.
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