The corpus record

ὀρεί-χαλκος

oreichalkos · ὁ

mountain-copper

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Where it lives

Critias 4 · 8.09/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ὀρεί-χαλκος · orei-chalkos — LSJ

mountain-copper, yellow copper ore, copper, brass made from it

Lat. orichalcum (which by a false etym. was freq. written aurichalcum), mountain-copper, i.e. yellow copper ore, copper or brass made from it, h.Hom. 6.9, Hes. Sc. 122, Stesich. 88, Ibyc. Oxy. 1790.42, B. Fr. 68 Bgk., Pl. Criti. 114e, Arist. APo. 92b22, Mir. 834b25, Philostr. VA 2.7, 20; a mirror of it, Call. Lav.Pall. 19 ; described by Theopomp. Hist. 109 as a mixture of ψευδάργυρος and χαλκός.

as Adj., = foreg., Suid.

In the wild

ὀρειχάλκου · oreichalkou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2180)
ὀρειχάλκοιο · oreichalkoio Shield of Heracles 122–123
ὀρειχάλκου · oreichalkou Plato, Critias 114
ὀρειχάλκῳ · oreichalkōi Plato, Critias 116
ὀρειχάλκῳ · oreichalkōi Plato, Critias 116
ὀρειχάλκῳ · oreichalkōi Plato, Critias 116

Where it came from

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