JAMBLICHUS, janz'-bri-ehtes, a Greek writer on the life of Pythagoras, mysteries of the Egyptians, &c. He was a great favourite with the emperor Julian, and died A.B. 363. JANrcuLum, ja-nrc'41-Zum, one of the seven his of Rome, was joined to the city by Aneus Martius by the bridge Subridus (on piles, sublicee), across the Tiber, and fortified as a citadel. It was less inhabited than the other parts of the city from the grossness of the air, though from the top the eye had a com manding view of the whole city.
JANus, jd-rzus. s. The double-faced god, son of Ccelus and HecOte, or of Apollo, born at Athens or in Thessaly, was the most ancient king in Italy ; he founded a town on the JanT cilium, on the Tiber, and hospitably received Saturn, who was driven from heaven by his son Jupiter, and made him his colleague on the throne. Janus is represented as a young man with two faces, as acquainted with the past and the future, and on some statues with four heads, and sometimes with and sometimes without a beard. In religious ceremonies he was always the first invoked, because, as he presided over all gates and avenues, through him alone prayers could reach the immortals ; whence he often appears with a key in his right hand and a rod in his left ; at times he is represented holding the number Soo in one hand and 65 in the other, as presiding over the year, of which the first month bears his name; he was also identified with Cmlus, and called Eames because of the revolution of the heavens ; he was called Consivirts, as presiding over generation ; Quisinus or Martians, as pre siding over war ; and Patuleius and C /mains, because the gates of his temples were open during war and closed in peace. Janus was
chiefly worshipped among the Romans, who reared many temples to him, some to 'Metes Bifnms (two-faced), others to Yantis Quadri frons (four-faced). The temples of Yawls. Quadrifrons were built with four equal sides, with a door and three windows on each side ; the four doors were the emblems of the four seasons, and the three windows in each the three months in each season. 2. A street at Rome, near the temple of Janus, frequented by usurers, brokers, and booksellers.