fŏras — Lewis & Short
fŏras, adv.acc. form like alias, alteras, utrasque; while foris is an abl. form; both from an obsol. nom. fora; Sanscr. dvār; Gr. qu/ra; O. H. Germ. tor; Engl. door,
I out through the doors, out of doors, forth, out (class.):
crepuit foris: Amphitruo exit foras,Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 35; cf.:
exeundum hercle tibi hinc est foras,id. Aul. 1, 1, 1:
i foras, mulier,id. Cas. 2, 2, 36:
quid tu foras egressa es?id. Am. 5, 1, 28; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 38:
foras aedibus me eici?Plaut. As. 1, 2, 1; cf.: homo hercle hinc exclusu'st foras, id. ib. 3, 3, 6:
anum foras extrudit,id. Aul. prol. 38; id. Cas. 4, 1, 10:
te huc foras seduxi, Ut, etc.,id. Aul. 2, 1, 14:
sese portā foras universi proripiunt,Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 1:
portis se foras erumpunt,id. ib. 2, 14, 1:
fer cineres, Amarylli, foras,Verg. E. 8, 101:
filium foras mittere ad cenam,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 65:
quae (urbs) laetari mihi videtur, quod tantam pestem evomuerit forasque projecerit,id. Cat. 2, 1, 2:
vides, tuum peccatum esse elatum foras,Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 65; cf.:
domus, in qua nihil geratur, quod foras perferendum sit,Cic. Cael. 23, 57; and:
efferri hoc foras et ad populi Romani aures pervenire,id. Phil. 10, 3, 6; cf. Lucr. 3, 123:
si (animus) eminebit foras, et ea quae extra sunt contemplans, etc.,Cic. Rep. 6, 26; cf.: justitia foras spectat et projecta tota est atque eminet, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 373, 25 (Rep. 3, 7 ed. Mos.): (scripta) foras dare, to spread abroad, publish, = edere, proferre, id. Att. 13, 22, 3:
vendere,Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 66:
locitare agellum,to strangers, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 26:
uxor, vade foras, aut moribus utere nostris,i. e. leave the house, separale from me, Mart. 11, 104, 1.—
(b) Connected with a noun:
ite hac simul heri damnigeruli, foras gerones, Bonorum hamaxagogae,carriers out, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 1.—
(g) Post-class. with gen., or like a preposition with the acc.: ea namque tabes, si foras corporis prospiravit, out of the body, e)kto\s tou= sw/matos, App. Mag. p. 306, 11:
extra urbem et foras portam,outside of, without, Hier. in Matt. 27, 33; so,
foras exteriorem partem,Vulg. Ezech. 47, 2:
usque foras civitatem,id. Act. 21, 5.—
2 For foris, abroad:
foras cenare,Petr. 30.