Very scurvily, that is to say, be always fashionably drunk, despise the Tyranny of your Bed, and reign absolutelykeep a Seraglio of Women, and let my Bastard Issue inherit; be seen once a Quarter, or so, with you in the Park for Countenance, where we loll two several ways in the gilt Coach like Janus, or a Spread-Eagle.

They have pulled down three,Hazlitt, Procter, and their best stay, kind, light-hearted Wainewright, their Janus.

Pray accept this for a letter, and believe me, with sincere regards, yours, C.L. Wainewright, the notorious poisoner, who, under the name of "Janus Weathercock," contributed various frothy papers on art and literature to the "London Magazine.

Take comfort, Janus; never feare thy head Which to the quick belongs, not to the dead.

It was a thing that Fernelius much laboured in his French practice, to reduce all his cure to our proper and domestic physic; so did Janus Cornarius, and Martin Rulandus in Germany.

Janus Bifrons. 3323.

A Christian's conscience, methinks, ought to be a 'Janus bifrons',a Gospel-face retrospective, and smiling through penitent tears on the sins of the past, and a Moses-face looking forward in frown and menace, frightening the harlot will into a holy abortion of sins conceived but not yet born, perchance not yet quickened.

Twenty-nine, Father Janus!

It was voted, moreover, that the temple of Janus Geminus, which was open, should be closed, on the assumption that wars had ceased.

Norbanus the consul had always been devoted to the trumpet, and as he had practiced assiduously in this pursuit he wished on this occasion also to play the instrument just about dawn, when many persons were already near his house This proceeding threw them all without exception into confusion, just as if the consul had imparted to them some warlike signal; and they were also disturbed by the falling of the statue of Janus.

[Footnote 38: Janus was the name of a street near the temple of Janus, especially frequented by bankers and usurers.

[Footnote 38: Janus was the name of a street near the temple of Janus, especially frequented by bankers and usurers.

It was divided into summus, nedus and imus Horace says Hase Janus summus ab imo Edocet

Some, however, suppose that the Saturnalia were first observed at Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, after a victory obtained over the Sabines; while others support, that Janus first instituted them in gratitude to Saturn, from whom he had learnt agriculture; others suppose that they were first celebrated in the year of Rome 257, after a victory obtained over the Latins by the dictator, Posthumius.

Like Janus he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness cured; Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude; And boisterous English wit with art endued.

Enter JANUS. Janus.

Enter JANUS. Janus.

The world was a fool, ere since it begun, And since neither Janus nor Chronos, nor I, Can hinder the crimes, Or mend the bad times, 'Tis better to laugh than to cry.

Janus: the conquest of war.

Dio the Roman says that Janus, an ancient hero, because of his entertainment of Saturn, received the knowledge of the future and of the past, and that on this account he was represented with two faces by the Romans.

APPENDIX Ad Janum Take Comfort Janus, never feare thy head Which to the quick belongs, not to the dead Thy wife did lye with one, thou being dead drunke Thou are not Cuckold though shee bee a Punke.

"That monster you've put on the porch, with four faces pointing to the four points of the compass, has Janus, the god of beginnings, beaten to a finish.

Shall I call it Janus, for its two faces? or will Chang-and-Eng best distinguish this dual unit?

VESPASIAN, TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS, Roman emperor (from 70 to 79) and tenth of the 12 Cæsars, born in the Sabine territory of humble parentage; rose by his valour to high rank in the army and in favour with it, till at length he was elected by it to the throne; he had waged war successfully in Germany, Britain, and at Jerusalem, and during his reign, and nearly all through it, the temple of Janus was shut at Rome.

He compares its position with that of Venice in relation to Genoa, or Janua, as the inhabitants who boast that Janus was their founder, call their city.