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Corrigia

Corrigia

1. A shoe-string or boot-lace (Cic. de Div. 2.4. 0; Varr. ap. Non. p. 448, 26), which was sometimes made of dog's skin (Plin. Nat. 30.35). [See an illustration under CREPIDA]

2. In the Edict of Diocletian, p. 26, it is used for a whip-lash or a horse's rein.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.