A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nly used in temples. The folding-doors exhibited in the last woodcut,instead of a rebate such as we employ, have an up-right bronze pilaster standing in the middle of thedoor-way, so as to cover the joining of the fastenings of the door (claustra, Ovid. 6. 17 ; obices) commonly consisted in a bolt(pessulus ; fidvdaAos, Karox^vs, KXtiQpov, \fj6pov, 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 (TrufyiV, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1261). Th
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nly used in temples. The folding-doors exhibited in the last woodcut,instead of a rebate such as we employ, have an up-right bronze pilaster standing in the middle of thedoor-way, so as to cover the joining of the fastenings of the door (claustra, Ovid. 6. 17 ; obices) commonly consisted in a bolt(pessulus ; fidvdaAos, Karox^vs, KXtiQpov, \fj6pov, 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 (TrufyiV, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1261). ThePompeian door-ways show two holes correspond-ing to the bolts of the two fores (Gell, Pompeiana,2nd Ser. vol. i. p. 167) ; and they agree withnumerous passages which 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 shows an ancient boltpreserved in the Museum at Naples. (Mazois,Ruines de Pompei, vol. i. part. 2. pi. vii.). By night, the front-door of the house was furthersecured by means of a wooden and sometimes aniron bar (sera, repagula, p-ox^-hs) placed across it,and inserted into sockets, on each side of the door-way. (Festus, Adserere; Ovid. Amor. i. —56.) Hence it was necessary to remove thebar (rbv fxox^bu irapdcpepeiv, €iv, 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 were 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 (nXrjOpa (rv/x-TrepaivovTes /xox^ois, Eurip. Orest. 1546, 1566,Iph. Aul. 345, Androm. 952). To fasten thedoor with the bolt wasjanuae pessulum obdere, withthe bar januam obserare (Ter. Eun. iii. 5. 55, 26, Heaut. ii. 3
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