Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Winged sandals such as those worn by Hermes and Iris as represented in Greco-Roman painting and sculpture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In classical mythology and archaeology, the sandals, bearing small wings, worn characteristically by Hermes or Mercury and often by Iris and Heos (Dawn), and by other divinities, as Eros and the Furies and Harpies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Class. Myth.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
winged sandals worn byHermes /Mercury
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art)
Etymologies
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Examples
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But they are most admirable talaria, ankle-winglets enabling him to skim and scud, to direct his flight this way and that, to hover as well as to tower, even to run at need as well as to fly.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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The Bithynian coins generally give youthful portraits of Antinous upon the obverse, with the title of 'Herôs' 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.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The Bithynian coins generally give youthful portraits of Antinous upon the obverse, with the title of 'Herôs' 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.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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These would have even Hermes trading in his talaria, for a new pair of these golden b-ball style sneaks.
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Hermes Trismegistus] is an older, bearded man, fully clothed without petasus, talaria or a caduceus
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
Walden 2004
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Clarke renders ‘ut tersis niteant talaria plantis,’ ‘that his wings shine upon his spruce feet.’] [Footnote 87: _God who inhabits Lemnos.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
fbharjo commented on the word talaria
talariaMercury's winged nikes??
January 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word talaria
And don't forget the FTD guy. ;-)
February 23, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word talaria
Wow! Just one letter different from a group of diseases caused by protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (phylum Apicomplexa), which are transmitted by mosquitoes. What a difference one letter makes.
Sounds like a good list idea, actually, but I'm not clever enough to do it!
February 23, 2007