Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Baxeae

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Baxeae

or Baxae. Sandals made of leaves, twigs, or fibre, and worn by comic actors, while the cothurnus was peculiar to the tragic stage (Isidor. Orig. xix. 33). Philosophers also wore sandals of this description, at least in later times. Of the two baxeae shown in the accompanying illustration, the upper one was worn on the right foot. It has a loop on the right side for fastening the band which went across the instep. This band, together with the ligature connected with it,

Baxeae. (British Museum.)

which was inserted between the great and the second toe, is made of the stem of the papyrus, undivided and unwrought. The lower figure shows a sandal in which the portions of the palm-leaf are interlaced with great neatness and regularity, the sewing and binding being effected by fibres of papyrus. The three holes may be observed for the passage of the band and the ligature already mentioned.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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