Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . to have had an altarhere in very early times. Janus Quirinus was a war-god, the sunarmed with a lance. Thus, in time of peace, the gates of histemple were closed, botli because his worship was then unnecessary,and perhaps from an idea of preventing war from going forth. Itwas probably in this character that he was honoured on a sitewhicli the Romans looked upon as the key of Etruria, whileother nations naturally regarded it as the key of Rome. Janus was represented as having a key in his left hand. When the first king of Rome, Numa Pompi
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . to have had an altarhere in very early times. Janus Quirinus was a war-god, the sunarmed with a lance. Thus, in time of peace, the gates of histemple were closed, botli because his worship was then unnecessary,and perhaps from an idea of preventing war from going forth. Itwas probably in this character that he was honoured on a sitewhicli the Romans looked upon as the key of Etruria, whileother nations naturally regarded it as the key of Rome. Janus was represented as having a key in his left hand. When the first king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, like the darlingsof the gods in the golden age, fell asleep full of days, he wasburied upon the sacred hill of his own people, and the books ofhis sacred laws and ordinances were buried near him in a separatetomb.* In the sixth century of the Republic, a monument wasdiscovered on the Janiculan, which was believed to be that ofNuma, and certain books were dug up near it, which were de- yant.\. 245. = Nielnihr, ^ Arnold,/ii,s«. vol. i. 044. Til]: ALTARBv wiiirii THE Grovk of Furrina in the ViELA SCEXRKA BECAME IDENTIFIED (1908) Walks in Borne 645 stroyed by the paternal senate, either in the fear that they mighttie its religious hands, or else because they were forgeries. Ancus Martius, the fourth king of Rome, connected the Janiculanwith the rest of the city by building the Pons Sublicius, the firstbridge over the Tiber, and erected a citadel on the crest of the hillas a bulwark against Etruria, with which he was constantly atwar.^ Some escarpments, supposed to belong to the fortificationsof Ancus, have lately been found behind the Fontana Paolina. Itwas from this same ridge that his Etruscan successor, TarquiniusPriscus, coming from Tarquinii (Corneto), obtained his first viewof the city over which he was to reign, and here the eagle, hence-forward to be the emblem of Roman power, replaced upon hishead the cap which it had snatched away as he was riding in hischa
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