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1 aurichalcum
brass, golden metal; yellow copper ore, "mountain copper"; brass objects (pl.) -
2 orichalcum
ŏrĭchalcum (also erroneously written aurĭchalcum, as if from aurum), i, n., = oreichalkos, yellow copper ore, also the brass made from it.I.Lit., Cic. Off. 3, 23, 92; Hor. A. P. 202:II.album,
Verg. A. 12, 87.—It was highly prized by the ancients, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 46; id. Mil. 3, 1, 61; id. Ps. 2, 3, 22; cf. Plin. 34, 2, 2, § 4 (al. aurichalci). —Transf., of brass implements. —So of a brazen tuba, Val. Fl. 3, 61.—Of arms of brass, Stat. Th. 10, 660.
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Aurichalcit — Aurichalcịt der, s/ e, Mineral, kupferhaltiger Hydrozinkit … Universal-Lexikon
SEPS — apud Tertullianum de unico Deo c. 1. Per latebras animae sepis manante venenô. Et Prudentium contra Symmachum praefat. l. 1. v. 74. Seps insueta subit serpere flexibus: Solino aspis tabisicus est, c. 27. unde nomen. Aldrovando lacerta est… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
