_domus necessariis rebus instructa_—a comfortably-furnished house.
_domus ruina_[1] _impendet_—the house threatens to fall in (_vid._
sect. X. 5, note _"Threaten"..._).
_domus collapsura, corruitura (esse) videtur_—the house threatens to
fall in (_vid._ sect. X. 5, note _"Threaten"..._).
_domus subita ruina collapsa est_—the house suddenly fell in ruins.
_domum demoliri_ (Top. 4. 22)—to demolish, raze a house.
_domus non omnes capit_[2] (χωρειν)—the house is not large enough for
all.
_domum frequentare_ (Sall. Cat. 14. 7)—to be a regular visitor at a
house.
_domus rimas agit_—the house walls are beginning to crack.
_apud eum sic fui tamquam domi meae_ (Fam. 13. 69)—I felt quite at
home in his house.
_apud aliquem esse_—to be at some one's house.
_tectum subire_—to enter the house.
_tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere_ (opp. _prohibere aliquem
tecto, domo_)—to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door
against some one).
_domo pedem non efferre_—to never set foot out of doors.
_pedem limine efferre_—to cross the threshold.
_foras exire_ (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)—to go out of the house.
_foras mittere aliquem_—to turn some one out of the house.
_in publico_—in the streets.
_in publicum prodire_ (Verr. 2. 1. 31)—to show oneself in the streets,
in public.
_publico carere, se abstinere_—to never appear in public.
_domi se tenere_—to never appear in public.
_deducere_[3] _aliquem de domo_—to escort a person from his house.
_pro aris_[4] _et focis pugnare, certare, dimicare_—to fight for
hearth and home.
_domi_ (opp. _foris_)—at home; in one's native country.
_ostium, fores pulsare_—to knock at the door.
_ostium, fores aperire, claudere_—to open, shut the door.
_fores obserare_—to bolt the door.
_ianuam effringere, revellere_—to burst open the door.
_valvas (portam) obstruere_—to barricade a door (a city-gate).
[1] _ruina_ = fall, overthrow (metaphor. e.g. _ruina rei publicae,
ruinae fortunarum_, Catil. 1. 6. 14). In plur. it is used of the
ruins, débris resulting from an overthrow, e.g. _urbs strata ruinis_,
a town in ruins; _fumantes ruinae urbis_. For "ruins" in the sense of
remains of old buildings use _parietinae_.
[2] Also metaph. e.g. _Macedonia te no capit_.
[3] Notice too _deducere coloniam_; _deducere naves_, to launch ships,
opposed to _subducere_ = to beach a boat; _deducere adulescentes ad
virum clarissimum_ (De Am. 1. 1); _deducere de sententia aliquem_;
_rem in eum locum deducere, ut..._; _de capite deducere_ (opp.
_addere_) _quod pernumeratum est_ = to subtract from the capital the
amount paid; _deducere aliquem_, to escort a person from his province
to Rome.
[4] At Rome there were altars not only in the temples but also in the
streets and in private houses. In a house there were usually two—one
in the court, the altar of the _Penates_; another in the _atrium_ on a
small hearth (_focus_), this was the altar of the _Lares_. Hence _arae
focique_ = the altars and hearths of the _Lares_ and _Penates_.