[453] Virg., as Heyne observes, characterizes this secret postern gate in four ways,—first simply as ‘limen,’ then bringing in the notion of secrecy in ‘caecae fores,’ then in ‘pervius usus’ &c. explaining the object of this second entry, and lastly in ‘postes relicti a tergo’ giving the situation of the door, at the back of the building. ‘Caecae fores’ would be expressed in Greek by Ψευδόθυρον. ‘Pervius usus’ in apposition with ‘fores’ &c., as we might call a gate a thoroughfare.
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