Brewer's: Cyprian Brass

or “æs Cyprium,” copper. Pliny (book xxxiv. c. ii.) says, “in Cypro enim prima æris inventio fuit.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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