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Chălybes , um, m., = Χάλυβες.
I. A people in Pontus, noted for their mines and their preparation of steel [chalybs, hence the name; acc. to others, on the contr., steel, χάλυψ, was named from them], Plin. 6, 4, 4, § 11; 7, 56, 57, § 197; Cat. 66, 48; Verg. G. 1, 58; id. A. 8, 421; 10, 174 al.—
II. A tribe on the river Chalybs in Lusitania, Just. 44, 3, 9.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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