with gates of brass, bronze, from bronze spouts
with gates of brass or bronze, ἱρόν Hdt. 1.181; χ. θεά, epith. of Athena, E. Tr. 1113 (lyr.); ὕδωρ, of Castalia, because issuing from bronze spouts in the shape of lions’ heads, Pi. Pae. 6.7.
The corpus record
χαλκό-πῠλος
chalkopulos
with gates of brass
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Where it lives
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χαλκόπυλόν · chalkopylon Euripides, Trojan Women 2.1110 (DIORISIS sentence 563)
- χαλκόπυλον · chalkopylon Herodotus, Histories 1.181.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1276)
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.