Content: Printed on border: "Co-thurn-us, s. Lat. from Gr. … Roman & Greek drama: a boot or buskin worn by the actors in tragedies. It reached half way up the leg, and sometimes almost to the knees, and had a very tick sole for the purpose of increasing the apparent stature of the performer. The actors in comedies wore a thin slipper called soccus, and hence cothurnus and soccus were employed figuratively to denote tragedy and comedy respectively …"
Source Note: Encyclopaedic dictionary. (New York : New York Newspaper Syndicate, 1896) Hunter, Robert (1823-1897), Editor. Morris, Charles (1833-1922), Editor.

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17657589
Barcode: 33333159385158
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2c92fff0-c563-012f-acfe-58d385a7bc34

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Date Issued

1896

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cothurnus" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1896. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2c92fff0-c563-012f-acfe-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1896). Cothurnus Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2c92fff0-c563-012f-acfe-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cothurnus" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2c92fff0-c563-012f-acfe-58d385a7bc34

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