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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 212 — Chapter VI · TOILETTE, DRESS, AND ORNAMENTS.

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Diog. Laert. ii. 37. c. Sch. Aristoph. Lysist. 417. Wooden shoes were worn in Thessaly. With these the women killed Lais in the temple of Aphrodite—Athen. xiii. 55. There was a species of shoes peculiar to female slaves called peribarides.—Poll. vii. 87. Aristoph. Lysist. 47.

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