A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ed in temples. The folding-doors exhibited in the last Avoodcut,instead of a rebate such as we employ, have an up-right bronze pilaster standing in the middle of thedoor-Avay, so as to cover the joining of the \ah~ fastenings of the door (claustra, Ovid. 6. 17 ; obices) commonly consisted in a bolt(pessulus ; [idvZaKos, Karo^vs, KXeZOpov, \fjePou, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1262, 1287, 1294)placed at the base of each foris, so as to admit ofbeing pushed into a socket made in the sill to re-ceive it (7ru0/.iV, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1261). ThePom
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ed in temples. The folding-doors exhibited in the last Avoodcut,instead of a rebate such as we employ, have an up-right bronze pilaster standing in the middle of thedoor-Avay, so as to cover the joining of the \ah~ fastenings of the door (claustra, Ovid. 6. 17 ; obices) commonly consisted in a bolt(pessulus ; [idvZaKos, Karo^vs, KXeZOpov, \fjePou, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1262, 1287, 1294)placed at the base of each foris, so as to admit ofbeing pushed into a socket made in the sill to re-ceive it (7ru0/.iV, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1261). ThePompeian door-Avays shoAV two holes correspond-ing to the bolts of the two fores (Gell, Pompeiana,2nd Ser. vol. i. p. 167) ; and they agree withnumerous passages Avhich mention in the pluralnumber the bolts, or, both the bolts of a door.(Plaut. Aulul. i. 2. 26, Cure. i. 2. 60—70 ; cc. ; Callim. in Apoll. 6.) The annexed woodcut shoAvs an ancient boltpreserved in the Museum at Naples. (Mazois,Rubies de Pompei, vol. i. part. 2. pi. vii.). By night, the front-door of the house Avas furthersecured by means of a Avooden and sometimes aniron bar (sera, repagula, fiox^bs) placed across it,and inserted into sockets, on each side of the door-Avay. (Festus, Adserere; Ovid. Amor. i. —56.) Hence it Avas necessary to remove thebar (tov fxox^bu irapdcpepeiv, anx/xoxAeueij/, 1309) in order to open the door (reserare).(Theophrast. Char. 18; Plutarch, Pelop. p. 517,ed. Steph. ; Plaut. Cist. iii. 18 ; Ovid. Met. v. 120.)Even chamber-doors Avere secured in the samemanner (Heliodor. vi. p. 281, ed. Comm.; cubiculiobseratis foribus, Apul. Met. ix.) ; and here also,in case of need, the bar was employed as a furthersecurity in addition to the two bolts (nAfjOpa yudxAois, Eurip. Orest. 1546, 1566,Iph. Aul. 345, Androm. 952). To fasten thedoor Avith the bolt was ja?iuae pessulum obdere, withthe bar januam obserare (Ter. Eun. iii. 5. 55, 26, Heaut.
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