The corpus record

ἐμβάς

embas · ἡ

felt-shoe, slipper, shoe of white felt

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Where it lives

Ecclesiazusae 4 · 5.24/10k
Knights 4 · 4.5/10k
Wasps 4 · 4.11/10k
Clouds 2 · 2.08/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἐμβάς · embas — LSJ

felt-shoe, slipper, shoe of white felt

felt-shoe or slipper, used by the Boeotians, Hdt. 1.195; at Athens by old men, Ar. Eq. 870, Nu. 858, V. 103, 275, 447, al.; by poor persons, Is. 5.11; ἐ. Σικυωνία a womanʼs shoe of white felt, Luc. Rh.Pr. 15; ἐ. ὠμοβοεῖς AP 6.21.

= κόθορνος, Callix. 2, Plu. Demetr. 41, v.l. in Luc. Gall. 26; χρυσαῖ ἐ. Id. Pseudol. 19, etc.

II part of the χελώνη

part of the χελώνη, Hsch.

In the wild

ἐμβάς · embas Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 550)
ἐμβάδας · embadas Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 691)
ἐμβάδας · embadas Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 229)
ἐμβάδας · embadas Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 252)
ἐμβάσιν · embasin Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 28)
ἐμβάδʼ · embadʼ Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 490)

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Where it came from

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