(κρηπίς), in Antiquity, a slipper used by the Romans, in imitation of the Greeks, and worn with the pallium, not with the toga—the calceus being the shoe used in walking. The proverb Ne sutor ultra crepidam is familiar to every one. It is said to have originated from an incident in the career of the celebrated painter Apelles. That artist used to expose his finished pictures in a public place, and take up his station behind the canvas to hear the remarks of the passers-by. On one occasion a cobbler criticized the defects in the shoes of a figure that was thus exposed. Apelles took the picture home, corrected the fault, and on the following day set up the painting as usual for public view. The cobbler finding the defect amended