pseudothyrum

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Ἡ δ' ἐμὴ ψυχὴ πάλαι τέθνηκεν, ὥστε τοῖς θανοῦσιν ὠφελεῖν → My soul died long ago so that I could give some help to the dead

Sophocles, Antigone, 559-60

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pseudŏthyrum: i, n., = ψευδόθυρον.
I Lit., a backdoor, private entrance, postern-gate: palatii, Amm. 14, 1, 3; Oros. 7, 6 fin.—
II Trop., a secret manner: (nummi) per pseudothyrum revertantur, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 50: non janua receptis, sed pseudothyro intromissis voluptatibus, id. Red. in Sen. 6, 14.