χάλκ-ειος, η, ον,
Epic dialect for χάλκεος, of copper or bronze, brazen, ἔγχεϊ χαλκείῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.380; αἰχμὴ χ. 4.461; κληΐς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αὐγὴ χ. gleam of brass, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.341 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χάλκειον γένος, of the Age of brass, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 144; εἰκὼ χαλκείην 3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 15: once in Trag., χάλκειον κάρα, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 537 (nisi to be read χάλκεον)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in late Prose, χάλκειος σφαῖρα [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.376. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II substantive, χάλκειος, ἡ, yellow fish thistle, Carlina corymbosa, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.4.3, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 21.94. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III see at {χαλκήϊος}.