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Talaria

noun
1.
A winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art).





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"Talaria" Quotes from Famous Books



... his shoulder. The Bithynian coins generally give youthful portraits of Antinous upon the obverse, with the title of 'Heros' or 'Theos;' while the reverse is stamped with a pastoral figure, sometimes bearing the talaria, sometimes accompanied by a feeding ox or a boar or a star. This youth is supposed to be Philesius, the son of Hermes. In one specimen of the Bithynian series the reverse yields a head of Proserpine ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds


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