On alloys
We are reading Suetonius and discussing bronze because someone's found some tabula aenea in the "Caesar ought to have known the end was near; check out all these omens" section. 
lysimache is trying to convince me that "brazen" is an actual word that means "bronzed" (like, covered/made of bronze) in addition to, you know, its usual meaning. I dispute the alloy-related definition on the grounds that she totally made that word up.
Somehow this led to the statement:
lysimache: Brass is an alloy too! Of, I don't know, bronze and... ass...?
Heh.
(For future reference brass = copper + zinc. Bronze = copper + tin.)
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lysimache is trying to convince me that "brazen" is an actual word that means "bronzed" (like, covered/made of bronze) in addition to, you know, its usual meaning. I dispute the alloy-related definition on the grounds that she totally made that word up.
Somehow this led to the statement:
lysimache: Brass is an alloy too! Of, I don't know, bronze and... ass...?
Heh.
(For future reference brass = copper + zinc. Bronze = copper + tin.)
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