| Their hips in trousers, not in trailing dresses, Their feet in sandals, not on cothurni, Their hair not clasped by a tortoiseshell buckle. |
| Comedians wore the socci or slippers, and tragedians the cothurni. |
| She is a figure of Greek tragedy who has been issued a comic mask by mistake, and keeps tripping over her cothurni. |
| Suddenly Matho put on his cothurni, buckled on his brazen jacket of mail, and took his helmet. |
