Calceus, calcei. Cic.A shoe.Laxus calceus. Horat. A wide shoe.Calceus pede maior, subuertit. Horat. Makesh one to fall.Inducere calceum alicui præposterè, vel perperam. Plin. To put on his shooes wrong.Induere calceurn. Suet. To put on.Mutare calceos. Est Senatorem sieri. Cic.Calceus lunatus.A Senators shoe, broad before like a moone.Vrit pedem calceus. Horar.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
calcĕus (also calcĭus; cf. Burm. and Oud. Suet. Aug. 73, and Calig. 52), i, m. [calx], a shoe, a half-boot (covering the whole foot, while soleae, sandals, covered only the lower part, Gell. 13, 22, 5; v. solea, and cf. Liddell and Scott s. v. u(po/dhma, and Dict. of Antiq.; very freq. and class.): calcei muliebres sint an viriles, Varr. L. L. 9, 40 Müll.; Titin. ap. Fest. s. v. mulleos, p. 142 ib. (Com. Rel. p. 128 Rib.): calcei habiles et apti ad pedem, Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 231: calcei et toga, id. Phil. 2, 30, 76: in calceo pulvis, id. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 11, 3, 137; cf. id. 11, 3, 143; 6, 3, 74: laxus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 32. laxatus, Suet. Oth. 6: sinister, dexter, id. Aug. 92: laevus, Plin. 2, 7, 5, 24: pede major subvertet, minor uret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 42.—When the Romans reclined at table they laid aside their shoes; hence, calceos poscere (like soleas poscere, v. solea), i. e.
to rise from table
, Plin. Ep. 9, 17, 3: calceos et vestimenta mutavit,
changed
, Cic. Mil. 10, 28; but also, because senators wore a peculiar kind of half - boot (cf. Becker, Gallus, III. p. 132, 2d ed.): calceos mutare, i e. to become senator, Cic. Phil. 13, 13, 28.