I.to bolt, bar, fasten, or shut up (not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: claudo, oppilo, obstruo).
I. Lit.: “ostium,” Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 25: “aedificia,” Liv. 5, 41: “fores (opp. aperire),” Suet. Tit. 11: “tabellam liminis,” Cat. 32, 5: “exitus,” Col. 9, 1, 3: “rogos,” i. e. the dead, Prop. 4, 11, 8.—
II. Transf.: “aures,” Hor. Epod. 17, 53: palatum (for os), i. e. to be silent, Cat. 55, 21: “fores amicitiae,” Amm. 27, 12.
