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Headword:
*)ifikrati/des
Adler number: iota,770
Translated headword: Iphikratids, Iphicratids
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of footwear, [taking its name] from Iphikrates.[1]
Damascius in
Philosophic history [writes]: "if ever he went around wearing Attic Iphikratids or ordinary sandals".[2]
*)ifikrati/des: ei)=dos u(podh/matos, a)po\ *)ifikra/tous. *dama/skios e)n *filoso/fw| i(stori/a|: ei)/pote de\ ta\s *)attika\s *)ifikrati/das h)\ ta\ sunh/qh sa/ndala peridedeme/nos perieno/stei.
Notes:
[1] For whom see
iota 772. On the Iphikratids see
Diodorus Siculus 15.44.4: "he made shoes for the soldiers that were easy to untie and light, and they are still to this day known, after him, as Iphikratids". Modern readers will think, by way of comparison, of the Wellington boot.
[2]
Damascius Life of Isidore fr. 151 Zintzen (89 Asmus).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 August 2001@08:02:57.
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