people
The Chalybes
Chalybes
A Pontic people famed as iron-workers; 'the naked Chalybes' stand for the source of iron.
Reading notes
- The Aeneid §8.421 Chalybian steel
The Chalybes, a Pontic people famed as iron-workers; 'Chalybian' = of steel.
- The Aeneid §10.175 Chalybes
The Chalybes, a people famed as iron-workers; their 'inexhaustible ores' fill Elba.
- The Georgics §1.58 Chalybes
A Pontic people famed as the world's iron-workers.