Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Excalceatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EXCALCEA'TUS. Literally, without shoes (calcei, Suet. Vesp. 8.); thence, in a special sense, a comic actor (Seneca, Ep. 8.), as contradistinguished from a tragic one (cothurnatus), who wore upon the stage a close boot, which enveloped the whole foot; whereas the chaussure of the comedian was not a close shoe or regular calceus, but a mere sole bound on with leather straps, which left the toes and great part of the foot exposed, as shown by the annexed figure (Excalceatus/1.1), from a bas-relief representing a comic scene.

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  Excalceatus/1.1