noun
plānĭpes
Meaning
- a kind of pantomime
plānĭpes, pĕdis, m. planus-pes, flatfoot, barefoot,
I. a kind of pantomime or ballet-dancer, who performed without the comic soccus or the tragic cothurnus: exsultat planipes, Atta ap. Diom. p. 487 P.:
planipedes audit Fabios, Juv. 8, 191: planipes saltans, Gell. 1, 11, 12.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
plānipēs pedis, m
planus+pes.—In the theatre, an actor with naked feet (i. e. as a slave): Planipedes audit Fabios, Iu.