verb transitive

excalcĕo

2nd PP ex-calcĕāre · 3rd PP ex-calcāvi · 4th PP ex-calcātum · conj. 1st

(), (the deponent form, v. below)

to take off the shoes

to take off the shoes.

verb. finit in general •

In gen.: petiit, ut sibi pedes praeberet excalciandos, Suet. Vit. 2.—More freq. with a personal object and in the part. perf.: excalciatus cursitare, unshod, barefoot, Suet. Vesp. 8; Mart. 12, 88; cf. mid. in the verb. finit.: neque umquam aut nocte aut die excalcearetur aut discingeretur, Vell. 2, 41 fin.; and as a verb. dep.: ut nemo se excalceatur, Varr. ap. Non. 478, 16.—

to relieve of the; pantomimists in particular

In partic., of tragedians, to relieve of the cothurni, Sen. Ep. 76, 23.— Hence, excalceāti, ōrum, m., pantomimists (opp. to the tragic actors, who wore cothurni, and the comic, who wore socci), Sen. Ep. 8, 7.

Perseus ID: n16625 Key: excalceo