Crossword-Solution: SOLEA 5 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The _soccus_ was a slipper not tied, worn in the house; and the _solea_ a very light sandal, also used in the house only.

With regard to the generic characters, it is difficult to give any reason why the mouth should be at the end of the head instead of behind the apex of the snout as in the genus _Solea,_ but, as we have seen already, the small size of the mouth and the greater development of teeth on the lower side are adapted to the food and mode of feeding.

Quo mea se molli candida diva pede 70 Intulit et trito fulgentem in limine plantam Innixa arguta constituit solea, Coniugis ut quondam flagrans advenit amore Protesilaeam Laudamia domum Inceptam frustra, nondum cum sanguine sacro 75 Hostia caelestis pacificasset eros.

The chief coverings for the feet were the _calceus_, which covered the whole foot, somewhat like our shoes, and was tied above with a _latchet_ or lace, and the _solea_, a slipper or sandal which covered only the sole of the foot, and was fastened on with leather thongs or strings.

Like his friends Niccolo da Correggio and Gaspare Visconti, Beatrice's secretary was a fervent admirer of Petrarch, and wrote an elaborate commentary on the _Canzone_, "_Mai non vo' più cantar como io solea_," which he dedicated to Isabella d'Este and sent her with a letter expressing his conviction that no one before him had ever fully understood this profound and subtle poem.