Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Obex

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. 

OBEX. A fastening to a door. It does not appear that the word had any special meaning, being applied in a manner which admits of various interpretations; a bolt, for instance, bar, lock, or latch; and, consequently, it may be considered as a general term applicable to any of the various contrivances adopted by the ancients as door fastenings. Ov. Met. xiv. 780. Tac. Hist. iii. 30. Paulus ex Fest. s. Obices.