wearing sandals , having sandals on (if of a man and in public, a mark of effeminacy; v. solea): stetit soleatus praetor populi Romani cum pallio purpureo tunicāque talari, mulierculā nixus, Cic.Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 86; cf. id.Pis. 6, 13; Castric. ap. Gell. 13, 21, 1; Afran. ap. Non. 207, 32; Sen. Ira, 3, 18, 3; Petr. 27, 2; Mart. 12, 83, 6.