valvis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →valva, valvae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
double or folding door (usu. pl.), one leaf of the doors;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Tonantis regalemque domum: dextra laevaque deorum atria nobilium valvis celebrantur apertis. plebs habitat diversa locis: hac parte potentes..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cantus, animi felicia laeti argumenta, sonant; reseratis aurea valvis atria tota patent, pulchroque instructa paratu Cepheni proceres ineunt..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Tonantis regalemque domum: dextra laevaque deorum atria nobilium valvis celebrantur apertis. plebs habitat diversa locis: hac parte potentes..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...prata et arbusta. A capite porticus triclinium excurrit; valvis xystum desinentem et protinus pratum multumque ruris videt, fenestris..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...leviter alluitur. Undique valvas aut fenestras non minores valvis habet atque ita a lateribus a fronte quasi tria..."