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Χαλκεύω
I forge, I make of copper or bronze
[Used] with an accusative.
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Χαλκεύς
smith
[Meaning] anyone who makes an artefact of copper/bronze; also a goldsmith.
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Χαλκευτής
smith
"This dust covers Pindar, the Pierian trumpet, the mighty smith of holy hymns."
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Χαλκεῖα
Chalkeia, Bronzes
A festival at Athens, which some call Athenaia; but others [call it] Pandemos [Whole People], because it is observed by all.
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Χαλκεῖα
Chalkeia, Bronzes
An ancient [sc. Athenian] festival popular long ago, but subsequently observed by the craftsmen only, because Hephaestus worked bronze in Attica. It is on the last day of [the] month Pyanepsion; also the day …
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Χαλκεῖα
Chalkeia, Bronzes
A festival among Athenians, celebrated on the last day of [the month] Pyanepsion, for craftsmen in general and bronze-smiths in particular, as Apollonius says. But Phanodemus maintains that the festival is celebrated not for …
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Χαλκεῖον
forge, smithy
[The place] in which [sc. bronze-]smiths work. But 'Dodonian bronze' has two senses.
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Χαλκηδόνιοι
Chalkedonians, Chalcedonians
[Those] from the city of Chalkedon/Chalcedon.
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Χαλκήβατος
chalkebatos
[no gloss]
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Χαλκήρεα
brazen
[no gloss]
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Χαλκιδεύς
Chalkideus
A proper name.
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Χαλκιδίζειν
to Chalkidize
[To Chalkidize] and to be Chalkidian. In reference to those who are being stingy. Also [sc. attested is] to phikidize, in reference to pederasty; since among them sexual acts between males were customary. But …
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Χαλκιδικὸν δίωγμα
Chalkidian pursuit, Chalcidian pursuit
At the Thesmophoria [festival] at Athens [there was] a certain ritual [commemorating an occasion when] in wartime the women had prayed that the enemy be pursued, and what happened was that they were expelled …
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Χαλκιδῖτις
copper-girl, penny-prostitute
[Meaning] a whore in Josephus. [So called] from the cheapness of the coin given.
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Χαλκίς
chalkis
A kind of bird; the owl.
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Χαλκίοικος
Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
[An epithet of] Athena in Sparta. [The term arose] either because she has a bronze house; or because it is a solid one; or because exiles from Chalkis [Myth, Place] in Euboia founded it.
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Χαλκίοισι
bronzes
"We use wretched [bronzes], struck only the other day in the worst of stamps." They used to speak of 'bronzes' like 'golds' in form, bronze-fashioned. Bad currency is being referred to thus, the gold …
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Χαλκοβαρεῖα
bronze-heavy
[Meaning one] made heavy with bronze. Meaning solid.
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Χαλκοβατές
bronze-floored
[Meaning something] solid.
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Χαλκοκορυστής
bronze-armed, bronze-helmeted
[Meaning he who is] armoured in bronze.
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Χαλκοκρότων
brazen-hoofed
[Meaning] brazen-footed. That is, having strong hooves; for what happens is that the ground resonates and rings out, hammered by the feet of the horses.
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Χαλκολίβανον
Lebanese bronze, incense-bronze
A kind of electrum, more costly than gold. Electrum is a kind of gold combined with glass and stone. The holy table of the Great Church was also made of such a combination.
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Χαλκόπους Ἐριννύς
bronze-footed Fury
She who is firm and tireless in pursuing murderers.
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Χαλκοτύπους
bronze-forged [ones]
[Meaning] the blows resulting from an iron [tool]. "Your body [struck] with violent bronze-blows".
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Χαλκοῦς
copper
[Equivalent to] 7 lepta ['lights, mites']. See under 'talent'.
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Χαλκῷ
with a bronze [one]
[Meaning] with an iron [one]. The material itself [is] chalke. But [one says] chalkous statue, the derivative adjective. And the feminine [is] chalke, as with chrysous ["golden"] and chrysos ["gold"].
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Χαλκώδων
Chalkodon, Chalcodon
[no gloss]
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Χαλμήδη
Chalmede
[no gloss]
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Χάλος
Chalos, Chalus
A river, one plethron [= 100 feet] wide, full of large, tame fish.
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Χαλύβοις
Chalybes, Chalyboi
A people of Scythia, from where iron originated. And Lycophron [writes]: "shattered by a Chaly[b]dican sword". Also [sc. attested is] chalyps ["steel"], [meaning] iron. In the Epigrams: "and steel harsh [and] reed-devouring."
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