talaria

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He was presented by the King of Heaven with a winged cap, called petasus, and with wings for his feet, called talaria.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

I take numeris as a dative; no close parallel presents itself, but compare Aen IV 239-40 'pedibus talaria nectit / aurea'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

It is the "cap of darkness" and the talaria, and wafts them whither they will.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various