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ὀρεί-χαλκος , ὁ, Lat.
A.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.VA2.7,20; a mirror of it, Call.Lav.Pall.19 ; described by Theopomp. Hist.109 as a mixture of ψευδάργυρος and χαλκός.
II. as Adj., = foreg., Suid.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 122
    • Plato, Critias, 114e
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 2.7
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