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So, when Ulysses launched his spear at Soccus, he cried: "Ah, wretch, no father shall they corpse compose, Thy dying eye no tender mother close; But hungry birds shall tear those balls away, And hungry vultures scream around their prey."
Both sexes also wore in travelling a thick, long cloak without sleeves, called the pænula, and the men wore also over the toga a dark cloak, the lacerna. On their feet the men wore slippers, boots, and shoes of various patterns. The soccus was a slipper not tied, worn in the house; and the solea a very light sandal, also used in the house only.
The actors were not necessarily planipedes in fact, though they remained so in name; they might wear the soccus and the Greek dress of the higher comedy. The Mimes seem to have formed at this time interludes between the acts of a regular drama.
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