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Chalcedon

Chalcedon · f

a town in Bithynia

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Chalcēdon — Lewis & Short

Chalcēdon (in MSS. also Calchē-don), ŏnis, f., = *xalkhdw/n,

I a town in Bithynia, on the Thracian Bosporus, opposite Byzantium, Mel. 1, 19, 5; Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149 sq.; 37, 5, 18, § 73; Liv. 42, 56, 6; acc. Gr. Chalcedona, Luc. 9, 959 al.; cf. Mann. Asia Min. 3, p. 581 sq.—Hence,

II Chalcēdŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of Chalcedon, Chalcedonian: Thrasymachus, Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 128: smaragdi, Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 72: harenae, Claud. in Rufin. 2, 55.—Subst.: Chalcēdŏnii, ōrum, m., the Chalcedonians, Tac. A. 12, 63.

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