Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trechedipnum

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. 

TRECHEDIP'NUM. A word coined or adopted from the Greek (Juv. iii. 67.); the meaning of which is very doubtful. Some suppose it to designate the boots (ἐνδρομίδες) worn by the victors at the Grecian games; others, a peculiar sort of costume worn by the Greek parasites, by virtue of which they gained ready admission to the houses where their company was sought or tolerated; but all attempts to arrive at a definitive interpretation are purely conjectural.