Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), V, V, Valvae

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（θύραι διάπριστοι). A folding door or shutter, i. e. one made of two or more leaves which fold back one behind the other. The house-doors were sometimes of this sort, as the marks on a threshold in Pompeii show (Pliny , Epist. ii. 17, 5; Orig. xv. 7, 4).

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

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