sb. pl. Anc. Rom. Mythol. Also 7 in Eng. form talaries. [L., neut. pl. of tālāris: see prec.; lit. things pertaining to the ankles.] Winged sandals or small wings attached to the ankles of some of the deities, esp. Mercury. Hence Talaria’d a., wearing talaria.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., Wks. (Grosart), II. 253. Euerlasting shooes, like the talaria of Mercury.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Talaries, shooes with wings, which Mercury wore, as Poets feigne.
1737. G. Ogle, Antiquities Explained, 20. The Reader will be pleas’d to take this Description of Virgil; who mentions at the same Time his [Mercury’s] Talaria or winged Sandals.
1789. T. Dickens, Posthumous Poem (1790), 11.
| No wings of golden gleam, like Maia’s Son’s, | |
| With plum’d Talaria pendent to his feet, | |
| Bright as a Comet in th’ ethereal space, | |
| Sustain his flight t’ invoke the Muses’ aid, | |
| In the pure Atmosphere of Phocian spring. |
1866. J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Metam., 26. Dofied the talaria and the helm, retains Caduceus to his aid. Ibid., 324. Thence sprung Autolychus, ingenious thief, To the talaria’d god.
