πύλη: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=!πψ/λη, ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> one [[wing]] of a [[pair]] of [[double]] gates, Hdt.: [[mostly]] in pl. the gates of a [[town]], opp. to [[θύρα]] (a [[house]]-[[door]]), Il., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in Trag., [[sometimes]], of the [[house]]-[[door]].<br /><b class="num">3.</b> Ἀΐδαο πύλαι, periphr. for the [[nether]] [[world]], [[hell]], Hom., Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[generally]], an [[entrance]], of the [[liver]], π. καὶ δοχαὶ χολῆς the [[orifice]] and [[receptacle]] of [[gall]], Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an [[entrance]] [[into]] a [[country]] [[through]] mountains, a [[mountain]]-[[pass]], Hdt.: esp. [[Πύλαι]], ῶν, αἱ, the [[common]] [[name]] for [[Θερμοπύλαι]], the [[pass]] [[round]] the mountains from [[Thessaly]] to [[Locris]], considered the gates of [[Greece]], Hdt.; so, of the [[pass]] from [[Syria]] [[into]] [[Cilicia]], Xen., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> also of [[narrow]] straits, by [[which]] one enters a [[broad]] sea, ἐπ' αὐταῖς λίμνης π., of the Thracian [[Bosporus]], Aesch.; ἐν πύλαις, of the [[Euripus]], Eur.