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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. 

TALA'RIA (πέδιλα, Hom. Il. 24. 340.) Sandals with wings affixed to the sides near the ankle-bone (talus); attributed by the artists and poets to Mercury (Virg. Aen. iv. 239.), Perseus (Ovid. Met. iv. 666.), and to Minerva (Cic. N. D. iii. 23.) The illustration (Talaria/1.1) is from a figure of Mercury painted at Pompeii, in which the sole, and ligatures by which the wings were attached to the foot, are clearly delineated.

  • Talaria/1.1
    Talaria/1.1

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