planipes

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

plānĭpes, pĕdis, m. [planus-pes, flatfoot, barefoot],

a kind of pantomime or ballet-dancer , who performed without the comic soccus or the tragic cothurnus: exsultat planipes, Atta ap. Diom. p. 487 P.: planipedes audit Fabios, Juv. 8, 191: planipes saltans, Gell. 1, 11, 12.

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