Janus - in ancient sources @ attalus.org

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Janus - Roman god of gates and new beginnings
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259/14a Duilius dedicates a temple to Janus.
235/8 The gate of Janus is closed, as a symbol that Rome is at peace.
Within translations:
Athen_15.692 [Philoxenus] says, telling you that Janus who is worshipped as a
CIL_6.40952 icated a temple to Janus in the Forum] Holitorium [
CIL_add.8 (1st cent. A.D.) closed the gate of Janus, [when he was consul
Oros_7.2 checked, the gates of twin-faced Janus were closed. The first and
Oros_7.3 words of Cornelius Tacitus: " Janus was opened in the old
Oros_7.9 peace and decreed that double-faced Janus should be confined by the
Plin:HN_33.45 was on one side a Janus facing both ways and on
Plin:HN_34.33 year, and to show that Janus is the god of the
Plin:HN_36.27 the two carved the Father Janus which was dedicated in its
[Vict]:VirIll_3 built the gates of two-faced Janus. He divided the year into
[Vict]:VirIll_79 personally closed the gates of Janus Geminus, which had been closed

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