drone; lazy vagabond
Ancient Greek word, found 40 times in the texts on Socratos.
Euripides, The Trojan Women 192: ὡς κηφήν, ἁ δειλαία,
Euripides, Bacchae 1365: ὄρνις ὅπως κηφῆνα πολιόχρων κύκνος;
Plutarch, De recta ratione audiendi 8: … νον καὶ καθαρὸν ἀκροατὴν τὰ μὲν ἀνθηρὰ καὶ τρυφερὰ τῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων τὰ δραματικὰ καὶ πανηγυρικὰ κηφήνων βοτάνην σοφιστιώντων ἡγούμενον ἐᾶν, αὐτὸν δὲ τῇ προσοχῇ καταδυόμενον εἰς τὸν νοῦν τοῦ λόγου καὶ τὴν διάθεσιν …
All forms of κηφήν