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PORTA. PORTA. 943<br />

with the Poletae <strong>and</strong> Practores ; <strong>and</strong> Demosthenes but larger in proportion. The wooden bar placed<br />

{Philip. i. p. 49. IS) joins Tuy xpVud-Twv raidai across them in the inside (/io^Ad*) was kept in<br />

kuI Tropiarai. from which it would appear that its position by the following method. A hole,<br />

they were public <strong>of</strong>ficers in his time, although the passing through it perpendicularly (&a\ayo&6fcn,<br />

words do not necessarily prove this. (Bockh, Aen. Tact. 1 8), admitted a cylindrical piece <strong>of</strong> iron,<br />

Publ. Econ. <strong>of</strong> Athens, p. 166, 2d ed.)<br />

called ficLWos, which also entered a hole in the<br />

PORNAE («V*i). [Hbtakrak.]<br />

gate, so that, until it was taken out, the bar could<br />

PORPE {iripTrrt). [Fibula.]<br />

not be removed either to the one side or the other.<br />

PORTA (iryAij, dim. vvK'ts), the gate <strong>of</strong> a city, (Thucyd. ii. 4 ; Aristoph. Vesp. 200 ; 0ceaAdVar

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