χαλκ-εύς, έως, ὁ:
plural χαλκεῖς, Attic dialect -ῆς[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 490 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 370d, _Epic dialect_ -ῆες (see. below): _accusative_ χαλκέας [prev. author] “Smp.” 221e, “R.” 428d, χαλκεῖς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.214a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—coppersmith, opposed to τέκτων (joiner, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 370d), ἣν [ἀσπίδα] χ. ἤλασεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.295, etc.; μίτρη, τὴν χαλκῆες κάμον ἄνδρες 4.187, 216. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 generally, worker in metal, of a goldsmith, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.432 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a worker in iron. [[ 9.391 ] Refs]; hence later, blacksmith, smith (χαλκέας τοὺς τὸν σίδηρον ἐργαζομένους [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1461a29), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.68, Ar.[same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.17; ἀνὴρ χ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.200; χ. χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου LXX.Gen.4.22. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II John Dory, Zeus faber, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 1.133, probably in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535b18 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; distinguished from χαλκίς, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.328d. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]