Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), O, Ornātrix, Ostium

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Ostium

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The entrance-hall in the Roman dwelling-house. (See Domus.)

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（θύρα). The inner door as opposed to the street door (ianua) on which cf. Vitruv. vi. 3; and Plaut. Pers. v. 1, 6.(See

Restoration of Entrance to Pompeian House, showing outer and inner Doors. (Rich.)

Ianua.)

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The door which closed the front of the stalls in which the horses and chariots were stationed in the Circus. See illustration in article Circus, pp. 352, 353.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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