. r Calendar, and it is possible that there maybe truth in Ovids assertion, that in the veryoldest ( before the Decemvirs) it was also thefirst \Dict. of Ant. art. Calendarium]. Healso presided over the Calends of each mouth,whence he is called Junonins, because Juno asmoon-goddess had to do with the months(Macrob. i. 9, l(i). A remarkable confirmationof the view that Janus and Vesta were the twomost ancient deities of the house may be foundin the fact that these relations reappear in thepublic ritual. The Hex Sacrorum [Diet, of
. r Calendar, and it is possible that there maybe truth in Ovids assertion, that in the veryoldest ( before the Decemvirs) it was also thefirst \Dict. of Ant. art. Calendarium]. Healso presided over the Calends of each mouth,whence he is called Junonins, because Juno asmoon-goddess had to do with the months(Macrob. i. 9, l(i). A remarkable confirmationof the view that Janus and Vesta were the twomost ancient deities of the house may be foundin the fact that these relations reappear in thepublic ritual. The Hex Sacrorum [Diet, of iAnt. ], who represented the oldest Romanreligion, offered sacrifices at the Calends toJanus on the Capitol, while his wife sacrificed in the Eegia, which represented the old state-hearth of the kings or chiefs house : on Jan. 9he offered a ram to Janus in the Eegia. Thespecial cake called janual or wasoffered on the 1st of January at his shrines gene-rally (Ov. Fast. i. 127 ; Lyd. Mens. iv. 2 ; 310). The public function of Janus which. Head of Janus. (From a uoin [<w] of the 4th cent. ) has been more celebrated than any other is hisguardianship of the state in time of war, whenthe gates of his most ancient sanctuary at theNE. end of the Forum iclosed in time of peace)were left open. This sanctuary, as old as Numasreign (Varro, v. 165; Liv. i. 19), was a squarebuilding open at both ends with a. flat roof : in
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