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fŏras , adv. acc. form like alias, alteras, utrasque; while foris is an abl. form; both from an obsol. nom. fora; Sanscr. dvār; Gr. θύρα; O. H. Germ. tor; Engl. door,
I.out through the doors, out of doors, forth, out (class.): “crepuit foris: Amphitruo exit foras,Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 35; cf.: “exeundum hercle tibi hinc est foras,id. Aul. 1, 1, 1: “i foras, mulier,id. Cas. 2, 2, 36: “quid tu foras egressa es?id. Am. 5, 1, 28; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 38: “foras aedibus me eici?Plaut. As. 1, 2, 1; cf.: homo hercle hinc exclusu'st foras, id. ib. 3, 3, 6: “anum foras extrudit,id. Aul. prol. 38; id. Cas. 4, 1, 10: “te huc foras seduxi, Ut, etc.,id. Aul. 2, 1, 14: “sese portā foras universi proripiunt,Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 1: “portis se foras erumpunt,id. ib. 2, 14, 1: “fer cineres, Amarylli, foras,Verg. E. 8, 101: “filium foras mittere ad cenam,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 65: “quae (urbs) laetari mihi videtur, quod tantam pestem evomuerit forasque projecerit,id. Cat. 2, 1, 2: “vides, tuum peccatum esse elatum foras,Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 65; cf.: “domus, in qua nihil geratur, quod foras perferendum sit,Cic. Cael. 23, 57; and: “efferri hoc foras et ad populi Romani aures pervenire,id. Phil. 10, 3, 6; cf. Lucr. 3, 123: “si (animus) eminebit foras, et ea quae extra sunt contemplans, etc.,Cic. Rep. 6, 26; cf.: justitia foras spectat et projecta tota est atque eminet, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 373, 25 (Rep. 3, 7 ed. Mos.): (scripta) foras dare, to spread abroad, publish, = edere, proferre, id. Att. 13, 22, 3: “vendere,Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 66: “locitare agellum,to strangers, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 26: “uxor, vade foras, aut moribus utere nostris,” i. e. leave the house, separale from me, Mart. 11, 104, 1.—
(β). Connected with a noun: “ite hac simul heri damnigeruli, foras gerones, Bonorum hamaxagogae,carriers out, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 1.—
(γ). Post-class. with gen., or like a preposition with the acc.: ea namque tabes, si foras corporis prospiravit, out of the body, ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματος, App. Mag. p. 306, 11: “extra urbem et foras portam,outside of, without, Hier. in Matt. 27, 33; so, “foras exteriorem partem,Vulg. Ezech. 47, 2: “usque foras civitatem,id. Act. 21, 5.—
2. For foris, abroad: “foras cenare,Petr. 30.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 47.2
    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 23.57
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 2.1.2
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.65
    • Cicero, Philippics, 10.3.6
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 1.2
    • Plautus, Casina, 2.2
    • Plautus, Stichus, 1.3
    • New Testament, Acts, 21.5
    • Caesar, Civil War, 2.12.1
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 5.1
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 1.2
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 1.1
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 2.1
    • Plautus, Casina, 4.1
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 2.7
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.123
    • Cicero, De Republica, 6.26
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