threshold
threshold
subs.
V. ὀδός, ὁ (Soph. O. C. 1590), βᾱλός, ὁ (Aesch. Choe. 571).
Entrance: P. and V. εἴσοδος, ἡ, εἰσβολή, ἡ, V. εἴσβᾰσις, ἡ.
Beginning: P. and V. ἀρχή, ἡ.
subs.
V. ὀδός, ὁ (Soph. O. C. 1590), βᾱλός, ὁ (Aesch. Choe. 571).
Entrance: P. and V. εἴσοδος, ἡ, εἰσβολή, ἡ, V. εἴσβᾰσις, ἡ.
Beginning: P. and V. ἀρχή, ἡ.
THRESHOLD
limen (PROP. and figuratively in poetry): initium (figuratively beginning). To cross anybody’s threshold limen alicujus intrare or inire: the threshold of a speech prima orationis verba exordium prooemium (☞ not initium in this connection): the threshold of an art or science elementa rudimenta incunabula plur. ☞ The word in its figurative sense may often be rendered by circumlocution with primus.
limen (PROP. and figuratively in poetry): initium (figuratively beginning). To cross anybody’s threshold limen alicujus intrare or inire: the threshold of a speech prima orationis verba exordium prooemium (☞ not initium in this connection): the threshold of an art or science elementa rudimenta incunabula plur. ☞ The word in its figurative sense may often be rendered by circumlocution with primus.
threshold: līmen, ĭnis, n. (prop. either the lintel or t.): in full l. inferum: hail! lintel and t., l. superum inferumque salve! Pl. Merc. 5, 1, 1: hence the pl. is often used for the whole of the lintel, t., etc.: e. g. limina floribus operire, Lucr. 4, 1169: at the very t., primo in limine, Virg. Aen. 2, 469: to put one's foot outside the t., pedem limine efferre, Cic. Cael. 14, 34: the door is close shut upon the t., amat janua l., Hor. Od. 1, 25, 4: Juv. 14, 44: Pl. Cas. 4, 4, 1: adj.: liminaris (of or belonging to the lintel or t.), Vitr. 6, 3, 4 (6, 4). Fig.: the t. of life, l vitae, Sen. Her. Fur. 1133 the t. of war, l. belli, Tac. A. 3, 74: it may also be expr. by vestibulum: to cross the t. of any art, v. artis alicujus ingredi, Quint. 1, 5, 7. Join: v. aditusque, Cic. Or. 15, 50: v. ENTRANCE : in Sen. Ep. 49, 6, a limine salutare = to tread only on the t. of any subject, without going farther.
threshold
Threshold
- bronze threshold of Agamemnon's hut at Aulis: Paus. 9.19.7