The corpus record

χάλκ-ασπις

chalkaspis · ὁ

with brazen shield

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Where it lives

Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

What it meant — LSJ

with brazen shield

with brazen shield, of warriors, Pi. O. 9.54, B. 10.62, Ibyc. 3.31 Diehl, E. HF 795 (lyr.); epith. of Ares, Pi. I. 7(6).25, E. IA 764 (lyr.); of Heracles, S. Ph. 727.

οἱ χ., a corps in the Maced. army, Plb. 2.66.5, al., Plu. Sull. 16.

III one who ran the armed foot-race

of one who ran the armed foot-race (ὁπλιτοδρόμος), Pi. P. 9.1.

In the wild

χαλκασπίδων · chalkaspidōn Euripides, Heracles 790–797
χάλκασπις · chalkaspis Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1 (DIORISIS sentence 446)
χάλκασπις · chalkaspis Sophocles, Philoctetes 721–729

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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