. "(Esp. in the poets.) For everything made or prepared from copper , bronze , etc. ( statues , tables of laws , money ), and (as the ancients had the art of hardening and tempering copper and bronze) weapons , armor , utensils of husbandry : aes sonit, franguntur hastae, the trumpet sounds : aere ( with the trumpet , horn (hence also rectum aes, the tuba , in contr. with the crooked buccina ); a brazen prow ; the brazen age" . "(Esp. in the poets.) For everything made or prepared from copper , bronze , etc. ( statues , tables of laws , money ), and (as the ancients had the art of hardening and tempering copper and bronze) weapons , armor , utensils of husbandry : aes sonit, franguntur hastae, the trumpet sounds : aere ( with the trumpet , horn (hence also rectum aes, the tuba , in contr. with the crooked buccina ); a brazen prow ; the brazen age" . .