Solea, Cic.A sole of a shooe: a shooe calsed a galage or paten, which hath nothing on the feete but only latchets. Some take it for a pantofle.Rubra solea. Pers. Soleæ ferreæ equis & mulis applicantur. Catul. Sueton. Horses and moyles are shod with yron shooes.Soleæ ligneæ, Cic.Patens.Induere soleas iumcntis, Vide INDVO, Plin.To shooe horses or other beastes. Solea. Colum. An instrument dsed in making oyle. Solea, Genus piscis. Plin A fishe called a sole.Soleárius soleárij, mas. ge. Plaut.A paten maker, a maker of horse shooes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sŏlĕa, ae, f. [solum]. I. A slipper consisting of a sole fastened on by a strap across the instep, a sandal: omnia ferme id genus, quibus plantarum calces tantum infimae teguntur, cetera prope nuda et teretibus habenis vincta sunt, soleas dixerunt, nonnumquam voce Graecā crepidulas, Gell. 13, 21, 5 (worn by men in the house only: considered as a mark of effeminacy if worn out of doors): NEIVE QVIS IN POPLICO LVCI PRAETEXTAM NEIVE SOLEAS HABETO, Lex in Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 569; cf. Hor. S. 1, 3, 128; and v. soleatus: ut vendat soleam dimidiatam, Lucil. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 10; cf. Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 63; id. Truc. 2, 5, 26; Prop. 2, 29 (3, 27), 40; Ov. A. A. 2, 212; Plin. 34, 6, 14, 31; Pers. 5, 169; Juv. 6, 612; Mart. 14, 65, 1.—These sandals were taken off on reclining at table, and resumed after the meal: deme soleas: cedo, bibam, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 16: cedo soleas mihi: auferte mensam, id. ib. 2, 4, 12: deponere soleas, Mart. 3, 50, 3: poscere soleas, Hor. S. 2, 8, 77; Sen. Contr. 4, 25 med.: soleas festinare,
to put on in haste
, Sall. H. 1, 105 Dietsch; cf. Becker, Gallus, 3, p. 130 sq.—II.Transf., of things of a like shape. A.A kind of fetter: ligneae, Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 149; Auct. Her. 1, 13, 23.—B.A kind of shoe for animals (not nailed on, like our horseshoes, which were unknown to the ancients, but drawn on and taken off again when not needed), Cat. 17, 26; Col. 6, 12, 2; Veg. 4, 9, 2 and 4; Suet. Ner. 30 fin.; Plin. 33, 11, 49, 140.— C.A kind of oil-press, Col. 12, 50, 6.—D.A kind of fish, a sole: Pleuronectes solea, Linn.; Ov. Hal. 124; Col. 8, 16, 7; Plin. 9, 15, 20, 52; 32, 9, 32, 102.—In a lusus verbb. with signif. I., Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 59.— E.A sill: solea, ut ait Verrius, est non solum ea, quae solo pedis subicitur sed etiam pro materiā robusteā, super quam paries craticius exstruitur, Fest. pp. 300 and 301 Müll.— F.The sole of the foot of animals, Veg. 1, 56, 31.