Doors [house]
. As, come indoors, go indoors. So Virgil: “Tum foribus divæ . . [Dido] . . resedit.” (Then Dido seated herself in the house or temple of the goddess.) (Æneid, i. 505.)
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.