πύλη [ῠ], ἡ,
properly one wing of a pair of double gates, ὀλίγον τι παρακλίναντες τὴν ἑτέρην π. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.156 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: mostly in plural, gates of a town (whereas θύρα = house-door), Σκαιαὶ π. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.145, etc.; π. εὖ ἀραρυίας 7.339; πύκα στιβαρῶς ἀραρυίας 12.454; πεπταμένας ἐν χερσὶ π. ἔχετε 21.531 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄνεσάν τε π. καὶ ἀπῶσαν ὀχῆας[[ [prev. work] 537; π. ἀνοῖξαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 604; π. κλῇσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 560c (the _Article_ is frequently omitted even in Prose)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural of several gates, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 125 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν πύλαις in or at the gates, [[[prev. work] 160, 213 (both Lyric poetry), +others; πρὸς πύλαις [prev. work] 377, 457 ] Refs]; ἐπὶ ταῖς πύλαισιν, οὗ τὸ τάριχος ὤνιον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1247. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Trag. sometimes of the house-door, δωμάτων πύλαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 732, compare 561 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; γυναικείους π. gate or door leading to the women's apartments,[[ [prev. work] 878; πύλαις διπλαῖς ἐνήλατο 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1261; ἐκτὸς αὐλείων πυλῶν [prev. author] “Ant.” 18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in singular,[[[prev. work] 1186, “El.” 818 ] Refs]; of the door of a tent, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 11; πύλης ἄναξ θυρωρέ [prev. author] “fragment” 775. ] Refs]
__3 πύλαι Ἀΐδαο the gates of the nether world, periphrasticfor hell, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.646, 9.312, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.156; Ἅιδου πύλαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1291, cf. NT.Matt.16.18, etc.; also σκότου πύλαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1; νερτέρων π. [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1447. ] NT+8th c.BC+]