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

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Embas

（ἐμβάς). This is sometimes used as a generic term for a closed boot, so called because one's foot “got into” (ἐμβαίνειν) it, and it was not merely fastened to the foot like a sandal. But at Athens ἐμβάς had a special signification; it was a cheap sort of boot first manufactured in Thrace, and in kind like low κόθορνοι (Poll.vii. 85), closedin boots with rectangular soles, often wooden. These ἐμβάδες were worn by men (Aristoph. Eccl. 47) and by the poorer classes (id. Suet. Vesp. 1157).