The corpus record — Latin

talaris

talaris · adj

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

tālāris — Lewis & Short

tālāris, e, adj.talus.

I Of or belonging to the ankles.

A Adj.: tunica, i. e. reaching to the ankles, long, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 31; 2, 5, 33, § 86; id. Cat. 2, 10, 22; Lact. 4, 14, 8; Vulg. Gen. 37, 23.—

B Subst.: tā-lārĭa, ĭum, n. *

1 The ankles or parts about the ankles, Sen. Ep. 53, 7.—

2 (Sc. calceamenta.) Winged shoes or sandals fastened to the ankles.—Of Mercury, Verg. A. 4, 239; Ov. M. 2, 736.—Of Perseus, Ov. M. 4, 667; 4, 730.—Of the fifth Minerva: cui pinnarum talaria adfigunt, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59. —Prov.: talaria videamus, let us think of flight, let us fly, Cic. Att. 14, 21, 4.—

3 (Sc. vestimenta.) A long garment reaching down to the ankles, Ov. M. 10, 591.—*

II Of or belonging to dice (in this sense talarius is more usual, v. h. v.): ludorum talarium licentia, of dicing, Quint. 11, 3, 58.

In the wild

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.