Cooking utensils made of copper are not to be recommended from the point of healthfulness, although many cooks esteem them because copper is a better conductor of heat than iron or tin.

(The "copper" is a military mounted policeman, controlling the traffic of a little town which lies on our way to the trenches.)

This he had borne to port as a great treasure, believing the copper to be gold in some new form of deposit.

That copper was my first-earned money; if it had only been put out at compound interest, I ought, if the mathematicians are right, to be now living in otium cum dignitate, perhaps.

Martial mentions a person, named Mamurra, who consulted only his nose, to ascertain whether the copper that was brought him were true Corinthian.