talaria

Mar. 25th, 2009 08:13 am
prettygoodword: text: words are sexy (Default)
[personal profile] prettygoodword
talaria - n., winged sandals.


Particularly, the winged sandals worn by Hermes/Mercury, which let him fly. From not Greek but Latin, the plural genative of talus, ankle -- so literally, "of the ankles."

---L.
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

February 2026

S M T W T F S
1 2 3 4 5 67
8 9 10 11 121314
15161718192021
22232425262728

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Feb. 13th, 2026 10:10 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios