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A fair shoe, Hic soccus novus, elegans, as he [1766] said, sed nescis ubi urat, but thou knowest not where it pincheth.
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The actors were not necessarily _planipedes_ in fact, though they remained so in name; [3] they might wear the _soccus_ [4] and the Greek dress [5] of the higher comedy.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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'_socci_ ... grandesque coturni'; in both passages _soccus_ has no adjective.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_leuis_ cites _RA_ 375-76 'grande sonant tragici, tragicos decet ira coturnos:/usibus e mediis _soccus_ habendus erit' and Hor _AP_ 80
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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In Rome, Dufour remarks, "Matrons having appropriated the use of the shoe (_soccus_) prostitutes were not allowed to use it, and were obliged to have their feet always naked in sandals or slippers (_crepida_ and _solea_), which they fastened over the instep with gilt bands.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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