Χιτωνίσκους

short tunics

Translated by David Whitehead26 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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Xenophon [writes]: "they [the Mossynoecians] wore short tunics which stopped above the knees, about as thick as the linen of a bed-sack".¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χιτωνίσκους· Ξενοφῶν· χιτωνίσκους δὲ ἐνεδεδύκεσαν ὑπὲρ γονάτων, πάχος ὡς λινὸν στρωματοδέσμου.

Betacode

*xitwni/skous: *cenofw=n: xitwni/skous de\ e)nededu/kesan u(pe\r gona/twn, pa/xos w(s lino\n strwmatode/smou.