χαλκίον, τό,
copper vessel, cauldron, kettle, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.393, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1128, “fragment” 107, 330, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 108, 256, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. θερμαντήριον, ={θερμαντήρ}, [[ “IG” 22.1416, 4.39 (from Aegina), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.663. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 cymbal, τὸ Δωδωναῖον χ., proverbial of a chatterbox, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 66, compare 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 6.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 bowl of the κότταβος, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.110. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 copper ticket given to the dicasts, bearing the name of the court in which they were to serve, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 piece of copper money, πονηρὰ χαλκία [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 724 (troch.); παραλαβὼν τὼ χαλκίω 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 83; compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.90.—Freq. written χαλκεῖον in codices, but χαλκίον is required by the metre in Comedy texts, and corroborated by Inscrr. (see. above), and Papyrus, “PCair.Zen.” 630.4 (3rd c.BC), “PMich.Zen.” 65.2 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 6.625.12 (3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II probably diminutive of χάλκη, ={κάλχη}[[ 11, “IG” 42(1).102.242 (Epid., 4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]