Hellas Alive Dictionary - κοθορνος

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

κόθορνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόθορνος κοθόρνου

Structure: κοθορν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

buskin, high boot, which covered the whole foot and half the leg, with thick soles, used by actors to increase their height

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

ἐσπεσὼν δὲ ἐσ σωρὸν ψήγματοσ πρῶτα μὲν παρέσαξε παρὰ τὰσ κνήμασ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ὅσον ἐχώρεον οἱ κόθορνοι, μετὰ δὲ τὸν κόλπον πάντα πλησάμενοσ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἐσ τὰσ τρίχασ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ διαπάσασ τοῦ ψήγματοσ καὶ ἄλλο λαβὼν ἐσ τὸ στόμα, ἐξήιε ἐκ τοῦ θησαυροῦ ἕλκων μὲν μόγισ τοὺσ κοθόρνουσ, παντὶ δὲ τεῷ οἰκὼσ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώπῳ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 125 5:1)
κόθορνοί τε γὰρ τὰ ὑποδήματά ἐστιν αὐτῷ καὶ ἔχει τῇ χειρὶ ἔκπωμα, τῇ δὲ ἑτέρᾳ θύρσον, κάθηται δὲ ἀετὸσ ἐπὶ τῷ θύρσῳ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 5:5)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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