Janus
deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Jane · Janes
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
God of passages and beginnings, invoked first in sacrifice, etymologized from 'going.'
And since in all things the first and the last have the greatest force, they would have Janus be foremost in sacrificing, whose name is drawn from going (ab eundo), whence the open passages are called iani and the doors at the thresholds of profane houses ianuae.
Ad Nationes
Roman god said to have received Saturn into Italy; later listed among place-gods.
For after very many lands and Attic hospitalities he settled in Italy — or, as it was then called, Oenotria — received by Janus, or Jane, as the Salii call it.
To pass over the rest, you reckon as gods even the places of regions or of the city, Father Janus (and there is a divine Jana of the arches), and Septimontius of the seven mounds.
Apologeticum
Italian god/king said to have received Saturn after his Attic sojourn.
and so far as the evidence of facts goes, I nowhere find more trustworthy testimony than in Italy itself, in which Saturn settled after many wanderings, and after his Attic sojourn, received by Janus — or Janes, as the Salii would have it.
De idolatria
Roman god associated with doors and thresholds.
For we ought to be certain, in case it escapes any through ignorance of secular literature, that even the gods of doors among the Romans—Cardea, named from hinges, and Forculus from doors, and Limentinus from the threshold, and Janus himself from the door—and surely we know that, although the names be empty and feigned, yet, when they are brought into superstition, they snatch to themselves the de …