Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Foris

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FORIS (σανίς, κλισιάς, θύρετρον). The door itself, as distinct from the doorcase (Liv. vi. 34. Cic. Verr. ii. 1. 26. Plaut. Curc. i. 3. 1.); and especially of one which opened outwards. (Serv. Aen. i. 449.) The doors of the ancients were generally made in two leaves, like our folding-doors (illustration s. JANUA); consequently, the word foris is mostly used in the plural; but when it occurs in the singular, we are to understand that one only of the leaves is meant (Ov. Her. xii. 150.), or that the door consisted of a single leaf, which the ancients sometimes used in the interior of their houses, as shown by the illustration (Foris/1.1), from the Vatican Virgil.

2. Fores carceris. The doors which closed the front of a stall in the circus, in which the horses and chariots were stationed before they started for the race, as shown by the annexed wood-cut (Foris/2.1), from a bas-relief in the British Museum. Ov. Trist. v. 9. 29.

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  Foris/1.1
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  Foris/2.1