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χάλκειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάλκειος

Structure: χαλκει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic for xa/lkeos

Sense

  1. of copper or bronze, brasen, a forge, of brass

Examples

  • τῶν δ’ ὕπο χάλκειοι τρέον ἰχθύεσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 22:4)
  • αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα ἐλθεῖν εἰσ ἀκτάσ, ὅθι τ’ ἄκμονεσ Ἡφαίστοιο χάλκειοι στιβαρῇσιν ἀράσσονται τυπίδεσσιν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 13:17)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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