Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Gallicae

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. 

GALL'ICAE. A pair of Gaulish shoes; the original of the french galoches and of our galoshes. They were low shoes, not reaching quite so high as the ankle, had one or more thick soles (Edict. Dioclet. p. 24.), and small upper leather, which was entirely open over the front of the instep, like the modern galosh, and the right-hand figure in the cut (Gallicae/1.1); or laced in front, and fastened by a ligature round the top, as in the left-hand example; whence they are classed amongst the soleae by the Latin writers, to distinguish them from the regular calcei, which were close-fitting high-lows that completely enveloped the foot and ankle. They were partially adopted at Rome before the age of Cicero, and were worn with the lacerna; but such a style of dress was regarded as indecorous and anti-national. (Cic. Phil. ii. 30. Aul. Gell. xiii. 21.) Under the empire they came into more common use, and were made for all classes, and of different qualities. (Edict. Diocl. l. c.) Both the specimens in the engraving are copied from a sarcophagus discovered in the Villa Amendola at Rome, in the year 1830, which represents a battle between the Romans and Gauls; the one on the left is worn by a Gaulish prince, the other by a captive of the same nation.

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