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an opening in the wall to admit the light

  • 1 fenestra

    fĕnestra, ae (also contr. festra, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 3, 12; Petr. Fragm. p. 872 Burm.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 91, 6 Müll.), f. [root PHAN, in phainô, phaneros], an opening in the wall to admit the light, a window (orig. closed by two wooden shutters or by curtains, and not till the empire by sheets of mica, lapis specularis; cf.

    Dict. of Antiq. p. 520 sq.): neque fenestra, nisi clatrata,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 26:

    fenestras indere,

    id. Rud. 1, 1, 6:

    fenestrarum angustias quod reprehendis,

    Cic. Att. 2, 3, 2:

    bifores,

    Ov. P. 3, 3, 5: juncta, closed, * Hor. C. 1, 25, 1; cf.

    patulae,

    Ov. M. 14, 752:

    reticulatae,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 3:

    se plena per insertas fundebat luna fenestras,

    Verg. A. 3, 152:

    diversas percurrens luna fenestras,

    Prop. 1, 3, 31 Burm. ad loc.:

    fenestram in arca facies,

    Vulg. Gen. 6, 16 et saep.—
    II.
    Transf.
    1.
    A loop-hole for arrows, etc.:

    (in turri) fenestras ad tormenta mittenda, in struendo reliquerunt,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9 fin.
    2.
    The recess of a window:

    concludere in fenestram firmiter,

    Plaut. Cas. 1, 44.—
    3.
    A breach made by besiegers in a wall:

    excisa trabe firma cavavit Robora et ingentem lato dedit ore fenestram,

    Verg. A. 2, 482.—
    4.
    Of the senses, windows for intelligence:

    ut facile intelligi possit, animum et videre et audire, non eas partes, quae quasi fenestrae sint animi,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 46 —
    B.
    Poet., transf., of holes through the tips of the ears:

    natus ad Euphraten, molles quod in aure fenestrae Arguerint,

    Juv. 1, 104.—
    II.
    Trop., an entrance, admission, opportunity, inlet, occasion [p. 735] (very seldom):

    hui quantam fenestram ad nequitiam patefeceris!

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 72: si hanc fenestram aperueritis, nihil aliud agi sinetis, Tiber. ap. Suet. Tib. 28.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > fenestra

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