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orichalcum

orichalcum · n

yellow copper ore

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ŏrĭchalcum — Lewis & Short

ŏrĭchalcum (also erroneously written aurĭchalcum, as if from aurum), i, n., = o)rei/xalkos,

I yellow copper ore, also the brass made from it.

I Lit., Cic. Off. 3, 23, 92; Hor. A. P. 202: album, Verg. A. 12, 87.—It was highly prized by the ancients, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 46; id. Mil. 3, 1, 61; id. Ps. 2, 3, 22; cf. Plin. 34, 2, 2, § 4 (al. aurichalci). —

II Transf., of brass implements.—So of a brazen tuba, Val. Fl. 3, 61.—Of arms of brass, Stat. Th. 10, 660.

In the wild

aurichalco Plautus, Pseudolus 2.3.688
aurichalco Plautus, Curculio 1.3
aurichalcum Suetonius, Vitellius 5.1
aurichalci Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.2.p1
orichalco Vergil, Aeneid 12.87
orichalcum Cicero, De Officiis 3.92.p1

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Where it came from

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