socculum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →socculus, socculi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
little soccus/low-heeled Greek slipper/shoe;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
- L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...excusant et negant id insolentiae causa factum, aiunt socculum auratum, immo aureum, margaritis distinctum ostendere eum uoluisse..." - G
Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Messalina petit, ut sibi pedes praeberet excalciandos; detractumque socculum dextrum inter togam tunicasque gestavit assidue, nonnumquam osculabundus. Narcissi..."