I.slowfooted, tardy-footed; hence, poet. transf., limping, halting, an epithet of Vulcan: “deus,” Cat. 36, 7; and of the same, absol.: “quin et Tardipedi sacris jam rite solutis,” of slow-foot, tardy-foot, Col. 10, 419.
tardĭ-pēs , pĕdis, adj. tardus-pes,

