Diphthera
διφθέρα
Diphthera (διφθέρα), a cloak made of skins, characteristic of workmen and countrymen. (Aristoph. Cl. 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, iii. p. 261 ff.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.