Soccus, socci. m. g. Teren. A kind of bagging shooes, % both men and women did vse.Soccus muliebris. Sueton. Calceare aliquem soccis. Plin. Immundo socco viam conterere, Propert.Detrahere alicui soccos, Terent.To pull of ones pinsons, or his stertups.Soccos quibus indutus est, sua manu ipse confecit.Cic.Lutheus soccus. Sen. Adimere soccos, Vide ADIMO.Soccis vtebantur & Comœdi. Horat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.