Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Carbatĭna

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Carbatĭna

（καρβατίνη).

1.

A sort of rude shoe, made of untanned ox-hide, placed under the foot, and tied with several thongs in such a way as to cover the whole foot and part of the leg (Lucian, Alex. p. 246; Xen. Anab. iv. 5, 14).

2.

A skin-covered structure used by besiegers. See Testudo.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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