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θυρ-αῖος , α, ον, also ος, ον S.El.313, E.Alc.805, Plu.(ll.cc.infr.): Aeol. θύραος IG12(2).14 (Mytil.): (θύρα):—
A.at the door or just outside the door, A.Ag.1055, S.Aj.793; θ. οἰχνεῖν to go to the door, go out, Id.El.313; “τόνδε βλέπω θ. ἤδη” Id.Tr.595; θ. στίβος, opp. ἔναυλος, Id.Ph.158 (lyr.); “θ. ἔστω πόλεμος” A.Eu.864: metaph., θ. ἀμφὶ μηρόν round the exposed, naked thigh, S.Fr.872 (lyr.); “θ. δόξα” Plu.Cat.Ma. 18; “θ. ὑποψίαι” Id.2.38c.
2. absent, abroad, A.Ag.1608, Ch.115; θ. ἐλθεῖν to come from abroad, E.Ion702(lyr.); τοὺς δ᾽ ἐν θυραίοις in the public eye, opp. τοὺς μὲν ὀμμάτων ἄπο, Id.Med.217.
3. from out of doors, from abroad, ἄνδρες θ. strangers, Id.Hipp.409; θυραῖα φρονήματ᾽ ἀνδρῶν the thoughts of strangers, ib.395.
4. = ἀλλότριος, ὄλβος θ. the luck of others, A.Ag.837; “πῆμα” E.Alc.778; “χείρ” Id.Ph.848; παῖδες, i.e. adoptive, Id.Fr.491.
II. containing a door, θ. τοῖχος entrance-wall, IG11(2).165.6(Delos, iii B.C.), 12 l.c.(pl.), Milet.7.56 (Didyma).
III. θυραία , ἡ, doorway, opening, Men.389, IG22.1668.61 (pl.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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