κρηπίς, ῖδος, ἡ,
man's high boot (compare [[“AB” 273)] Refs], half-boot, [[ 5th c.BC: Hegemon Comicus et Parodus “Parod.” 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Eq.” 12.10, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Char.” 2.7 (uncertain): distinguished from ὑποδήματα, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Aristocles Historicus 8; κ. λευκαί, a mark of effeminacy, 4th-3rd c.BC: Timaeus Historicus 82. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b κρηπῖδες soldiers' boots, i.e. soldiers themselves, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.6. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 shoeshaped cake, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.77. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II generally, groundwork, foundation, basement of a building or altar, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.93, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Tr.” 993 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 38 (_plural_), “HF” 985, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “An.” 3.4.7, “IG” 12.372.67; κ. καὶ στυλοβάτας [prev. work]42(1).102.7 (Epid.); τύμβου 'πὶ κρηπῖδ᾽ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hel.” 547: _metaphorically_, βάλλεσθαι κρηπῖδα σοφῶν ἐπέων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἀοιδᾶν βαλέσθαι [[[prev. work] 7.3; ἐβάλοντο φαεννὰν κρηπῖδ᾽ ἐλευθερίας [prev\. author] “fragment” 77; κ. γένους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1261; ἡ ἐγκράτεια ἀρετῆς κ. Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Memorabilia” 1.5.4, compare 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 4.4: οὐδέπω κακῶν κ. ὕπεστιν] Refs 6th c.BC+] we have not yet got to the bottom of misery, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pers.” 815; κ. θαλάσσης Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus [{2-3rd c.AD}] “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.453, 5.48 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. καὶ ἕδρα νόσου foundation and seat of disease, [[ 2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 13.7. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]