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χάλκεος , έα, Ion. -έη (Hom. always -είη (v. χάλκειος)), εον (also εος, εον Il.18.222 (ὄπα χάλκεον Αἰακίδαο, where Zenod. χαλκέην as disyll.), Hdt. (v. infr.): rarely in Trag., A.Ch.686, S.Fr.534.3,7 (anap.), E.Ion1; Aeol., Dor. χάλκιος Epich.79, Alc.15.3, SIG 945.6 (Assos, iv B. C.), IGRom.4.1302.35 (Cyme, i B. C./i A. D.), also Boeot., cf. χαλκοῦς; Att. χαλκοῦς , ῆ, οῦν (IG12.313.55, etc., but
A.“χαλκέων δέλτων” Pl.Ax.371a codd.); Ep. also χάλκειος , v. χάλκειος: (χαλκός):—of copper or bronze, brazen, οὐδός, δόμος, τεῖχος, Il.8.15, 18.371, Od.10.4; ἄξων, κύκλα, Il.13.30, 5.723; “χ. Ἀράων θάλαμοι” Antim. in PMilan.17.48; “χ. καὶ ἀδαμαντίνοις τείχεσι” Aeschin.3.84; “ὀδός” Astyd.9, Ister 30; esp. of arms and armour, ἔγχος, ξίφος, Il.3.317,335; “σάκος” 7.220; θώρηξ, χιτών, 13.398,440; “ἔντεα” 18.131, etc.; “χαλκέοις ὅπλοις” E.Ph.1359; also “λέβητος χαλκέου” A.Ch.686, cf. E.Cyc.392; χαλκέοισικάδοις, χαλκέοις δρεπάνοις, S.l.c.; in Trag. mostly contr., “χαλκοῖς βάθροισι” Id.OC1591; “χαλκῆς ὑπαὶ σάλπιγγος” Id.El. 711; “χαλκῆς ἐκ δέλτου” Id.Tr.683.
b. of statues, χ. Ζεύς, χ. Ποσειδέων, a bronze statue of . . , Hdt.9.81; “χ. ταῦρος” Pi.P.1.95; “ἡ χαλκῆ Ἀθηνᾶ” D.19.272; “ἱστάναι τινὰ χαλκοῦν” Id.13.21; “ἄξιος σταθῆναι χαλκοῦς” Arist.Rh.1410a33; “στήλη ἐφ᾽ ᾗ ὁ στρατηγός ἐστιν ὁ χαλκοῦς” And.1.38; cf. χαλκῆ.
c. χ. ἀγών a contest for a shield of brass, Pi.N.10.22.
2. metaph., brazen, i. e. hard, stout, strong, “χάλκεος Ἄρης” Il.5.704, etc. (unless wearing brazen armour, cf. χάλκεοι ἄνδρες Orac. ap. Hdt.2.152); Χαλκοῦς, nickname of Aristomedes, Din. ap. Did.in D.9.57, Philem.1.2 D., Plu.Dem.11; “χ. στονόεντ᾽ ὅμαδον” Pi.I.8(7).27; “χ. αὐδά” Id.Pae.2.100; χάλκεον ἦτορ a heart of brass, Il.2.490; “ὄπα χ.” 18.222; χ. ὕπνος, i. e. the sleep of death, 11.241; χαλκέοισι νώτοις, of Atlas, E.Ion1.
3. χαλκῆ μυῖα, a boy's game, a sort of blind-man's-buff, Herod.9a, Poll.9.123.
II. as Subst., v. χαλκοῦς. [χάλκεοι is disyll. in Hes. Op.150.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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