socci
Dictionary entries
- Entry →soccus, socci:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Arts
slipper, low-heeled loose-fitting shoe (worn by Greeks/comic actors); comedy;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...clupeum ad dorsum accommodem, fulmentas iubeam suppingi soccis? non sisti potest. video caculam militarem me futurum haud longius..."Cistellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...excidit: apparet. HAL. Sed is hac iit, hac socci video vestigium in pulvere, persequar..."Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...istic Theotimus? CHRYS. Etiam rogas? quin auro habeat soccis subpactum solum? NIC. Cur ita fastidit? CHRYS. Tantas divitias..."Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...ludum excitabatur a copreis. Solebant et manibus stertentis socci induci, ut repente expergefactus faciem sibimet confricaret..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...Archilochum proprio rabies armauit iambo; hunc socci cepere pedem grandesque coturni, alternis aptum sermonibus et popularis uincentem strepitus..."