Callide'mus
(
*Kalli/dhmos), a Greek author about whom nothing is known, except that Pliny (
Plin. Nat. 4.12) and Solinus (
17) refer to him as their authority for the statement, that the island of Euboea was originally called Chalcis from the fact of brass (
χαλκός) being discovered there first.
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