soccus

soccus ī, m

a low-heeled shoe, light shoe, Grecian shoe, slipper, sock: soccos, quibus indutus esset.—Esp., as characteristic of comic actors: Quam non adstricto percurrit pulpita socco, H.: Hunc socci cepere pedem, H.—Comedy (poet.): prope socco Digna carmina, H.: Usibus e mediis soccus habendus erit, O.