χαλκ-εύω,
make of copper or bronze or (generally) of metal, forge, δαίδαλα πολλά [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.400; ξίφος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1034, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸν χαλκέα αὐτὸν χ. work him on the anvil, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 301d: _metaphorically_, ἀψευδεῖ πρὸς ἄκμονι χάλκευε γλῶσσαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in middle sense, πέδας χαλκεύεται αὑτῷ [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 539; χαλκεύεσθε μηνίσκους φορεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1114 (troch.); ἐχαλκεύσατο κράνη.. ὁλοσίδηρα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 40 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]:—passive, to be wrought or forged, ἐξ ἀδάμαντος ἢ σιδάρου κεχάλκευται [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 123.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀφ᾽ ὁπόσων ταλάντων κεχ. at the cost of.., [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 11; τῶν κεχαλκευμένων πρὸς ἀπώλειαν ὅπλων 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.58: _metaphorically_, ἐπὶ τοῖς δεδεμένοις χαλκεύεται [ταῦτα]] Refs 1st c.BC+] these arms are being forged against.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 469 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of the victims in Phalaris' bull, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 113. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II absolutely, to be a smith, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 163, 513 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.88, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 396a; τὸ χαλκεύειν ] Refs 5th c.BC+]the smith's art, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.22. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]