χαλκός :
copper or bronze (an alloy of copper
and tin; brass, which is made of copper and zinc, was unknown to the
ancients), Od. 1.184. The word stands
often for things made of bronze, knife, axe, weapons and armor in
general. Epithets, αἶθοψ, νῶροψ,
ἀτειρής, and others appropriate to the things severally
designated.