ex-calcĕo (-calcĭo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (the deponent form, v. below), to take off the shoes.
I In gen.: petiit, ut sibi pedes praeberet excalciandos, Suet. Vit. 2.—More freq. with a personal object and in the part. perf. : excalciatus cursitare, unshod , barefoot , Suet. Vesp. 8; Mart. 12, 88; cf. mid. in the verb. finit. : neque umquam aut nocte aut die excalcearetur aut discingeretur, Vell. 2, 41 fin. ; and as a verb. dep. : ut nemo se excalceatur, Varr. ap. Non. 478, 16.—
II In partic., of tragedians, to relieve of the cothurni, Sen. Ep. 76, 23.— Hence, excalceāti , ōrum, m., pantomimists (opp. to the tragic actors, who wore cothurni, and the comic, who wore socci), Sen. Ep. 8, 7.