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χάλκειος

chalkeios

of copper, bronze, brazen, of brass

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Where it lives

  • Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
  • Job 5 · 3.75/10k
  • Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
  • Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
  • Iliad 28 · 2.51/10k
  • Symposium 3 · 1.72/10k
  • Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
  • On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
  • Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
  • Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
  • Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
  • Histories 6 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

1. χάλκ-ειος · chalk-eios

of copper, bronze, brazen, of brass, of brass

of copper or bronze, brazen, ἔγχεϊ χαλκείῳ Il. 3.380; αἰχμὴ χ. 4.461; κληΐς Od. 21.7; αὐγὴ χ. gleam of brass, Il. 13.341; χάλκειον γένος, of the Age of brass, Hes. Op. 144; εἰκὼ χαλκείην Maiist. 15: once in Trag., χάλκειον κάρα, S. Fr. 537 (nisi leg. χάλκεον); in late Prose, χάλκειος σφαῖρα S.E. M. 7.376.

II yellow fish thistle, Carlina corymbosa

Subst., χάλκειος, ἡ, yellow fish thistle, Carlina corymbosa, Thphr. HP 6.4.3, Plin. HN 21.94.

III

v. χαλκήϊος.

2. χαλκ-ήϊος · chalk-ēios

of, for a smith, forge

of or for a smith, ὅπλα Od. 3.433; δόμος, i.e. forge, 18.328; in form χαλκεῖος, θῶκος Hes. Op. 493.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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