chalcis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →chalcis, chalcidis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
kind of fish (sardine?/herring-like?); kind of lizard/snake; (w/copper spots);
nom. sg.voc. sg. - Entry →chalca, chalcae:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
plant (chrysanthemum family?); (buphthalmus?);
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →chalcus, chalci:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
- Geography:
- Greece
copper coin (of small value, one tenth obol, one 60th or 40th of a drachma);
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →Chalcis, Chalcidis:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
Chalcis; (several towns in Greece/elsewhere, esp. chief city of Euboea);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...dies fluxit, ut traditur factum eo motu quo Chalcis laborauit: quod apud Asclepiodotum inuenies, auditorem Posidonii..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ille gemitu sidera et pontum ferit, et uasta Chalcis sonuit et uoces Cyclas excepit omnis; hinc petrae Capherides..." 
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...prouocat Iden Olenos Ioniis et fluctibus hospita portu Chalcis et Herculea turpatus gymnade uultus amnis; adhuc imis..."- T
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Graecia sint, ne nominatae quidem intercipiantur, Corinthus et Chalcis et Oreus cum Eretria et Demetriade? nec tota..." - T
Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quod si tantum militum Romanorum fuisset ut et Chalcis teneri et non deseri praesidium Athenarum potuisset, magna..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...signum accepit, impigre est motus. nam et ipsa Chalcis, quamquam eiusdem insulae urbs est, tamen adeo arto interscinditur..."
