Brazen Age

The age of war and violence. It followed the silver age.

“To this next came in course the brazen age,

A warlike offspring, prompt to bloody rage,

Not impious yet. Hard steel succeeded then,

And stubborn as the metal were the men.”

Dryden: Metamorphoses, i.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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