Note 105 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
And kid-skins ’gainst the rigid season sew.] This was a sort of rough cloak of skins common to the country people of Greece.
Stripp’d of my garberdine of skins, at once I will from high leap down into the waves. Theocritus, Idyl. iii. 25.
Grævius quotes Varro as authority for a similar covering being worn among the Romans: by soldiers in camp, by mariners, and poor people.