Lexicographical Neighbors of Cothurni
Literary usage of Cothurni
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... a high Grecian »hoe: cum palla et cothurni«.—A laced hunting- boot mi-:,'¡nil
... ie triv¡tiln likr that of Athen», H. : cunctis gra- viora cothurni«, ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"But if you were mounted upon the cothurni of ancient tragedy, ... Strip off your
cothurni, descend from your stilts, let your mind advance in that mode ..."
3. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1903)
"We are told that the socci and cothurni took their pedem, and when a writer
deliberately so arranges his expression as to say that a certain foot-gear ..."
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