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was likewise distinguished by a crescent-shaped ornament, an ivory lunula attached to the back of the shoe. By the mid-imperial period, this was probably made of black leather.

The "turned calceus" (New Latin '''calceus repandus''') was an unrelated pointy-toed unisex Etruscan form of footwear, which receives its name from a passage in Cicero where

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