Poll. vii. 80-96. Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 299. Eq. 321. 709. Vesp. 103. Athen. iii. 56. On the Cretan Cothurn. Poll. vii. 193. v. 18. Bœttig. Les Furies, p. 35. There was an expensive sort of Ionian shoe called βαυκίδες. Etym. Mag. 192. 17. Κρηπίδες. Hieron. Mag. Miscell. iii. 3. A pair of these slippers appears to have been a day’s work, and cost in Lucian’s time seven oboloi. Somn. seu Gal. § 22. Herodotus speaks of purple buskins, vii. 76. The women of Thessaly wore wooden shoes. Athen. xiii. 55. Footnote 1334: Luc. adv. Indoct. § 6. Footnote 1335: Poll. ii. 195. x. 141. Antich. di Ercol. t. i. tav. 35. p. 187. Footnote 1336: Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 5. 1. Footnote 1337: Ezekiel, xvi. 10. ----- Of the various processes resorted to for tanning, dressing, and dyeing leather,[1338] whether to be worked up into clothing, armour, shoes, or parchment, too little by far is known. We are merely informed that, in removing the hair from hides and skins, they made use of the berries of the white briony;[1339] that, in preparing them for receiving any dye or colour, the seeds of the sumach[1340] were employed; and that the bark of the fir-tree and the wood of the alder,[1341] reduced to chips, entered into various preparations for dressing and dyeing.[1342] Fawn-skins among the Thracians were prepared probably with the hair on,[1343] for a sort of buskins,[1344] and the skins of sheep,[1345] and dogs,[1346] beavers,[1347] otters, and badgers, tanned in a variety of ways, sometimes with and sometimes without the hair, were appropriated to the manufacture of various articles of dress. Leather, moreover, was dyed of every bright colour,[1348] purple, scarlet, and crimson, and occasionally gilded or flowered with gold,[1349] for sandals, thongs, and other purposes. ----- Footnote 1338: Schol. Aristoph. Av. 259. Footnote 1339: Dioscor. iv. 184. Footnote 1340: Ῥόος. Dioscor. i. 147. Footnote 1341: Theoph. Hist. Plant, iii. 9. 1. 14. 3. Footnote 1342: The low oak, which produces the large acorn used in tanning, is now found in abundance in the Troad. Chandler i. 25. Footnote 1343: Herod. vii. 75. Footnote 1344: Sandals of leather with the hair on are still occasionally observed among the sailors of Greece. Chandler. ii. p. 12. Footnote 1345: Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 398. Footnote 1346: Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 269. Footnote 1347: Dioscor. ii. 26. Footnote 1348: As early as the age of Moses we find mention of rams’-skins dyed red. Exod. xxv. 5. Footnote 1349: Poll. vii. 87. -----