Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Grallae

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. 

GRALLAE. A pair of stilts made, as they still are, with a fork to embrace the foot; and originally invented for the actors who personated Pan or the satyrs on the stage, in order that they might appear with the thin and slender legs ascribed to these goat-footed deities. Festus. s. Grallatores. Varro ap. Non. p. 115. and CAPRIPES.