līmen inis, n 2 LAC-, a cross-piece, threshold, head-piece, lintel, sill: primo Limine, at the outer threshold, Iu.: Ter limen tetigi (an omen), O.: haec limina, Intra quae puer est, Iu.

—A door, entrance: limen exire, T.: intrare: marmoreum, H.: fores in liminibus aedium ianuae nominantur: templi, Cs.: in limine portūs, the very entrance, V.: Ausoniae, border, V.

—A house, dwelling, abode: contineri limine, at home, L.: limine pelli, V.: deorum Limina, temples, V.

—The barrier (in a race-course): limen relinquunt, V.

—Fig., a beginning: belli, Ta.: in limine victoriae, on the eve, Cu.: mortis, Ct.