I.to furnish with shoes, to put on shoes, to shoe (class. in prose and poetry): calceati et vestiti, * Cic. Cael. 26, 62; Suet. Aug. 78: “cothurnis,” Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83: “soccis,” id. 36, 5, 4, § 41: calceandi pedes, * Phaedr. 1, 14, 16; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 181: “fibrinis pellibus,” id. 32, 9, 36, § 110: calceabat ipse sese, Suet. Vesp. 21 al.—
B. Of animals (whose feet were furnished with shoes to be taken off and put on, not shod as with us): “spartea quă animalia calceantur,” Pall. 1, 24, 28: “mulas,” Suet. Vesp. 23: “simias,” Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 215: “calceatis pedibus,” Veg. 3, 58, 2.—
II. Trop.: “calceati dentes,” facetè, well prepared for biting, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 84: “calceati pedes in praeparatione Evangelii,” i. e. ready messengers, Vulg. Eph. 6, 15.