Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Soccus

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. 

SOC'CUS. A loose slipper, or shoe without any tie to it, but which completely covered the foot, so that a person wearing it is said to be soccis indutus (Cic. Or. iii. 32.), or soccis calceatus. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 4. § 13.) Amongst the Greeks it was commonly worn by both sexes (Cic. Rab. Post. 10. Terent. Heaut. i. 1. 72.); but at Rome its use was strictly confined to females (soccus muliebris, Suet. Cal. 52.), and to actors on the comic stage, in order to form a contrast with the high-soled boot (cothurnus) of the tragic drama (Hor. A. P. 80. Ov. Pont. iv. 16. 29. Quint. x. 2. 22.); so that whenever an instance occurs of the soccus being worn by a Roman off the stage, it is recorded as a singularly anti-national affectation, and reprobated accordingly. (Sen. l. c. Suet. l. c. Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 6.) The example (Soccus/1.1) here introduced is worn by a comic dancer in an ancient painting.

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