Note 1643 — Appendix D (to p. 170). Early Athenian Dress
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Hdt. V. 88; cp. Studniczka, Ges. Altgr. Tracht, pp. 14 f. on the Semitic origin of χιτών, the distinguishing garment of the Ἰάονες ἑλκεχίτωνες (Hom. Il. XIII. 685). The discrepancy with Hdt. that some scholars have found in Thuc. I. 6 is only apparent, see Holwerda, Rhein. Mus. 1903, p. 520.