DI´PHTHERA
DI´PHTHERA (
διφθέρα), a
cloak made of skins, characteristic of workmen and countrymen. (
Aristoph. Cl. 72, and Schol.
Vesp. 444; Plato,
Crit. p. 53; Lucian,
Tim. 100.12.) On
σκυτίναι
ἐσθῆτες in general, see Pollux (7.70), who mentions a
variety with a head-gear (
ἐπίκρανον) like
the
cucullus (q. v.). (Becker-Göll,
Charikles, iii. p. 261 ff.)
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