socci

Matching yellow slippers socci, perhaps embroidered with pearls, slipped in and out of view beneath her belted tunic as she was swept along by the two young boys holding her hands, chosen from the offspring of married family friends as hopeful harbingers of the children she would one day bear.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Caligae, dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

Waverley 2004

Comedians wore the _socci_ or slippers, and tragedians the _cothurni_.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

` ` It will so, my dear Glennaquoich; and the words are express: _Calig dict sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; _ that is, _calig_ are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

The Waverley 1877

As to the “socci,” or low shoes of the ancients, see the Notes to the Trinummus of

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847

Caligae, dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Caligae, dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

'It will so, my dear Glennaquoich, and the words are express: Caligae, dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

'_socci_ ... grandesque coturni'; in both passages _soccus_ has no adjective.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid