Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Limen

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. 

LIMEN (βηλός). The threshold, including the sill and the lintel of a door; which, however are sometimes distinguished by a special epithet: as limen inferior, the sill; limen superior, the lintel. Plaut. Merc. v. 1. 1. Id. Cas. iv. 4. 1. Vitruv. vi. 9. and 11. See the illustrations s. JANUA.

2. Limen or limina equorum. The threshold or doorway of the stalls in the Circus, from which the horses and chariots came out when they were about to start for a race. Virg. Aen. v. 316. Sil. Ital. xvi. 316. See the illustration s. CARCER, 2.