caligae

The police said the statue was shod with a pair of the "caligae" military boots favoured by the emperor - real name Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; as a boy, Gaius accompanied his father on campaigns in Germany; the soldiers were amused he wore a miniature uniform, and gave him his nickname Caligula, or "little boot".

The Guardian World News Tom Kington 2011

The legionary is also wearing an apron of leather strips featuring metal plates hanging from his belt, and caligae, leather sandals with iron hobnails.

Collector Coins Offer Enjoyment and Profit : Coin Collecting News 2010

The legionary is also wearing an apron of leather strips featuring metal plates hanging from his belt, and caligae, leather sandals with iron hobnails.

Collector Coins Offer Enjoyment and Profit : Coin Collecting News 2010

I'd like to go for bike rides and wear my caligae and glacier glasses and do some archery and maybe even go hiking and camping if I can find anyone else who would like to go.

nessus Diary Entry nessus 2008

The summer so I can walk around in my caligae and wear my glacier glasses.

nessus Diary Entry nessus 2008

I bought a pair of caligae (ancient Roman military sandals):

nessus Diary Entry nessus 2006

The devil might have taken the barren moors and drawn off the royal caligae for anything I would have minded.

Waverley 2004

Caligae, dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

Waverley 2004

By this time Pompey's soldiers were so settled and secure that the miles swung by under their hobnailed, thick-soled caligae as if no effort was involved; they had passed into their third hundred of these miles with no more than a mouthful or two of sour weak wine to mark the event.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

All through the night wakeful soldiers patrolled the streets and open spaces of Rome, campfires burning in any small spot where one could be kindled, the tramp of hobnailed caligae a sound which no sleepless Roman had ever heard beneath his windows.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991