bifrons

Thus the gift of observation that characterized Popinot was necessarily bifrons; he could guess the virtues of a pauper -- good feelings nipped, fine actions in embryo, unrecognized self-sacrifice, just as he could read at the bottom of a man's conscience the faintest outlines of a crime, the slenderest threads of wrongdoing, and infer all the rest.

The Commission in Lunacy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Philadelphi, Ptolemaei U Soteris fiHa, Lyfimacho Macc in cuius antica lanus bifrons, Cum nota oblonga, fupcr - ne pofita.

Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche 1785

(_bifrons_), as he appears in later representations.

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

I myself believe that the main features of the theology (if we may use the word) of the earliest Rome were derived from the house and the land as an economic and religious unit, and I am strongly inclined to see in Janus bifrons of the Forum a developed form of the spirit of the house-door; but the question is a difficult one, and I shall return to it in a lecture on the deities of early Rome.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Thus the gift of observation that characterized Popinot was necessarily bifrons; he could guess the virtues of a pauper — good feelings nipped, fine actions in embryo, unrecognized self-sacrifice, just as he could read at the bottom of a man’s conscience the faintest outlines of a crime, the slenderest threads of wrongdoing, and infer all the rest.

The Commission in Lunacy 2007

Thus the gift of observation that characterized Popinot was necessarily bifrons; he could guess the virtues of a pauper — good feelings nipped, fine actions in embryo, unrecognized self-sacrifice, just as he could read at the bottom of a man’s conscience the faintest outlines of a crime, the slenderest threads of wrongdoing, and infer all the rest.

The Commission in Lunacy 2007