Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fulmenta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FULMEN'TA (κάσσυμα). An abbreviation of fulcimenta, used to designate a thick, or probably extra, sole attached to a shoe or boot. (Lucil. Sat. xxviii. 40. Gerlach. Plaut. Trin. iii. 2. 94.) In the example (Fulmenta/1.1), from a Greek statue of Minerva, three soles are observable, one above the other, which, when thus conjoined, are termed fulmentae, in contradistinction to the ordinary sole of one piece (solea), for in the passages where the word occurs, it is constantly used in the plural number. They were made of cork, and were employed by the Greek and Roman ladies as a protection against damp in winter, as well as from motives of vanity, to give them an appearance of being taller than they really were. Plin. H. N. xvi. 13.

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