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soccus , i, m.
I. A kind of low-heeled, light shoe, worn by the Greeks; a slipper, sock, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 94; id. Ep. 5, 2, 60; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 98; id. Pers. 1, 3, 44; id. Cist. 4, 2, 29: “soccos, quibus indutus esset,” Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 127; id. Rab. Post. 10, 27; Cat. 61, 10 et saep.—When worn by Romans they were a sign of effeminacy, Suet. Calig. 52; Sen. Ben. 2, 12, 1; Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 17.—The soccus was worn especially by comic actors (the cothurnus, on the contrary, by tragic actors).—Hence,
II. Transf., comedy (as cothurnus, tragedy), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 174; id. A. P. 80; 90; Ov. R. Am. 376; Mart. 8, 3, 13: “comicus soccus,” Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 111; cf.: “nec tragoedia socco ingreditur,” Quint. 10, 2, 22: risus socci; “opp. luctus cothurni,” Claud. in Eutr. 1, 299.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, For Rabirius Postumus, 10.27
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 4.2
    • Plautus, Persa, 1.3
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 3.2
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 80
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 2.3
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 5.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.32
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 52
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.17
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 2.12.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 2.22
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