diphthera

DI´PHTHERA(διφθέρα), a cloak made of skins, characteristic of workmen and countrymen. (Aristoph. Nub. 72, and Schol. Vesp. 444; Plato, Crit. p. 53; Lucian, Tim. 100.12.) On σκυτίναι ἐσθῆτες in general, see Pollux (7.70), who mentions a variety with a head-gear (ἐπίκρανον) like the cucullus (q. v.). (Becker-Göll, Charikles, 3. p. 261 ff.)

(διφθέρα). A leathern cloak worn in Greece by workmen and rustics. See Aristoph. Nubes, 72.