Note 179 — Chapter IV · THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS.
Reading edition
The confusion with iron appears in the Sanskrit (Pali?) ayas; Latin æs for ahes (as we find in aheneus); the Persian áhan (آهن); the Gothic ais, or aiz; the High German er (which is the Assyrian eru and the Akkadian hurud), and the English iron. J. Grimm (Die Naturvölker) connects Ἄρης with æs. That æs and æris metalla in Pliny mean copper, we learn from his tale of Telephus (xxv. 19), which, by the by, is told by Camoens (Sonnet lxix.) in a very different way.