Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Obstragulum

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. 

OBSTRAG'ULUM. The flat leather strap or thong with which a shoe of the kind called crepida was bound round the foot, passing between the great and first toe, and over the instep, as shown by the annexed example (Obstragulum/1.1), from a Greek marble. Extravagant persons had these sometimes studded with pearls. Plin. H. N. ix. 56.

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  Obstragulum/1.1