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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[door]], Hom., [[mostly]] in plural [[double]] or folding doors, in [[full]] δικλίδες θύραι Od.: θύρην ἐπιτιθέναι, to put to the [[door]], opp. to ἀνακλίνειν, Il.; so, τὴν θύραν προστιθέναι Hdt.; ἐπισπάσαι Xen.; θύραν κόπτειν, πατάσσειν, κρούειν, Lat. januam pulsare, to [[knock]], rap at the [[door]], Ar., Plat.; metaph., ἐπὶ ταῖς θύραις at the [[door]], i. e. [[close]] at [[hand]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> from the Eastern [[custom]] of receiving petitions at the [[gate]] αἱ τοῦ βασιλέως θύραι became a [[phrase]], βασιλέως θύραις παιδεύονται are [[educated]] at [[court]], Xen.; αἱ ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας φοιτήσεις [[dangling]] [[after]] the [[court]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[proverb]]., γλώσσῃ θύραι οὐκ ἐπίκεινται (cf. [[ἀθυρόστομος]]) Theogn.; ἐπὶ θύραις τὴν ὑδρίαν to [[break]] the [[pitcher]] at the [[very]] [[door]], = "[[there]]'s [[many]] a [[slip]] 'twixt cup and lip," Arist.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> the [[door]] of a [[carriage]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> [[θύρη]] καταπακτή a [[trap]]-[[door]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> a [[frame]] of planks, a [[raft]], φραξάμενοι τὴν ἀκρόπολιν θύρῃσί τε καὶ ξύλοις with planks and logs, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[generally]], an [[entrance]], as to a [[grotto]], Od.