Brewer's: 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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