limen

līmen inis, n

2 LAC-, a cross-piece, threshold, head-piece, lintel, sill : primo Limine, at the outer threshold , Iu.: Ter limen tetigi (an omen), O.: haec limina, Intra quae puer est, Iu.— A door, entrance : limen exire, T.: intrare: marmoreum, H.: fores in liminibus aedium ianuae nominantur: templi, Cs.: in limine portūs, the very entrance , V.: Ausoniae, border , V.— A house, dwelling, abode : contineri limine, at home , L.: limine pelli, V.: deorum Limina, temples , V.— The barrier (in a race-course): limen relinquunt, V.—Fig., a beginning : belli, Ta.: in limine victoriae, on the eve , Cu.: mortis, Ct.