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ŏrĭchalcum (also erroneously written aurĭchalcum , as if from aurum), i, n., = ὀρείχαλκος,
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.
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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    • Plautus, Curculio, 1.3
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 2.3
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.87
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 202
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 3.1
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 34.4
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.23
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.61
    • Statius, Thebias, 10
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