Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sandalium

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. 

SANDA'LIUM (σανδάλιον, σάνδαλον). A highly-ornamented slipper worn by the ladies of Greece, from whom it was adopted by those of Rome. (Terent. Eun. v. 7. 4. Turpil. ap. Non. s. Priores, p. 427.) In character it appears to have possessed an intermediate form between the calceolus and the solea, having a sole and upper leather over the toes and front half of the foot, but leaving the heel and back part uncovered, like a modern slipper; and to this part it is probable that a strap or a sandal, as it is now called, was, sometimes at least, attached to fasten it over the instep. The use of it was exclusively confined to the female sex; and accordingly the example (Sandalium/1.1) here introduced, which also shows the manner of decorating the upper leather, is worn by a female in a Roman bas-relief; another, of precisely similar form, is met with on the feet of a female figure in one of the Pompeian paintings. Mus. Borb. vii. 39.

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  Sandalium/1.1