11-30-2005, 12:52 PM
Quote:More like these then?
http://www2.nethop.net/~buff/romansandals/
Not if they make you stand like that ;-)
Actually, I had always dismissed the line illustrations of fay young men standing around in Couissin's volume as due to an excess of moral turpitude ('o tempora, o mores' etc), but it might be that they just all had bad footwear. Perhaps that's reason no.578 for the Fall of the Roman Empire...
Mike Bishop